[A tropical pulmonary nodule].
The authors report a case of american pulmonary histoplasmosis discovered by chance on a chest radiograph in a non immunocompromised patient, back from a stay in French Guyana. Confronted with the negativity of usual mycotic research, diagnosis has been made thanks to wedge excision by video-assisted thoracic surgery. The authors briefly sum up the recent facts regarding this imported infection, stressing the interest of a direct approach by surgical practices not very invasive that allow to eliminate with certainty neoplasm or tuberculosis.
Cuguilliere
A
A
Service de Pneumologie, Hôpital d'Instruction des Armées Laveran, Marseille Armées.
Maslin
J
J
Raillat
A
A
Auvray
E
E
Lonjon
T
T
Miltgen
J
J
Branquet
D
D
Cador
L
L
Martet
G
G
Bonnet
D
D
D000328:Adult; D006660:Histoplasmosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008172:Lung Diseases, Fungal / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography
Un nodule pulmonaire "tropical".