title: [Pneumocystis carinii: an optic and electron microscopy study in samplings of 16 cases].
abstract: Sixteen patients with P. carinii infection were studied between 1977 and 1989; 12 were male and the age ranged from 4 months to 53 years old. 19 samples, 5 from autopsy, 7 from biopsy and 7 cytological aspirates were stained with hematoxylin-eosin, Gomori-Grocott, Giemsa and 0 toluidine. Autopsy material was studied by transmission electron microscopy. The diagnosis was made premortem in 11 patients. AIDS was the underlying disease in 6 patients, the rest having other immunodepressant conditions. P. carinii infection was limited to the lung in all patients. The Gomori Grocott stain gave positive results in all cases; cytological studies were generally noncontributory. Opportunistic agents were found in 4 patients (aspergillus, cytomegalovirus and C. neoformans).
authors: Departamento de Anatomía Patológica, Hospital Clínico de la P Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago.
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Oddó
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Vial
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Henríquez
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002677:Chile; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008875:Middle Aged; D011020:Pneumonia, Pneumocystis / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology*
vernacular_title: Pneumocystis carinii: estudio con microscopía óptica y electrónica en muestras de 16 casos.