title: Unilateral adrenal mass due to Mycobacterium kansasii in an AIDS patient.
abstract: Infection with Mycobacterium kansasii in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome usually involves the lung or disseminated infection. We report a case of infection with M kansasii confined to the adrenal gland and possibly to an adjacent vertebral body that presented as a fever of undetermined origin.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, East Carolina University School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, USA.
authors.forename: P P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Cook
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Christie
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D000307:Adrenal Gland Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology*; D000328:Adult; D005335:Fever of Unknown Origin / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D019909:Mycobacterium kansasii