title: Pulmonary botryomycoma.
abstract: A patient with a mobile mass of anaerobic organisms in the pulmonary parenchyma is presented. Radiographically it resembled a fungous ball. This observed botryomycoma may be part of the spectrum of aspiration pneumonia.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001439:Bacteroides / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D003352:Corynebacterium / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D010462:Peptostreptococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D011859:Radiography