title: Cavitation in acute histoplasmosis.
abstract: Cavitary lung lesions in histoplasmosis are usually associated with the chronic form of the disease. This report describes a ten-year-old boy with the clinical and serologic pattern of acute Histoplasma capsulatum infection who had multiple cavitary lesions.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002648:Child; D006660:Histoplasmosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008172:Lung Diseases, Fungal / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D012698:Serologic Tests