title: [Paracoccidiodomycosis (South American blastomycosis): general review and report of cases].
abstract: The author presents and comments upon 19 cases of paracoccidiodomycosis (South American Blastomycosis). He sums up the fundamental epidemiologic and parasitologic aspects of the disease. He points out the diversity of its anatomoclinical features, and underlines the role of the pathologic anatomy in the diagnosis of the disease which necessitates of course an immunologic study. Histology also allows the appreciate the effect of specific treatments and to emphasize the formidable sclerogenic tendency of the disease when the patient has not been long enough under treatment.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010229:Paracoccidioidomycosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000276:immunology
vernacular_title: La paracoccidiodomycose (blastomycose sud-américaine) revue générale et présentation de cas