Case report. Localized pulmonary zygomycosis without pre-existing immunocompromised status.
Pulmonary zygomycosis rarely occurs without pre-existing immunocompromised disease. A 72-year-old male was found to have a nodular shadow (3 cm x 4 cm) in the right S8 and S9 on a chest X-ray. Right lower lobectomy was performed and histological examination of the resected material demonstrated pulmonary zygomycosis. Hyphae stained positively not only with Grocott-Gomori methenamine silver staining, but also with an anti-Rhizopus oryzae polyclonal antibody.
Yokoi
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Iizasa
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Yoshida
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Kamei
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Hiroshima
K
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Ohwada
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O
Fujisawa
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D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D008172:Lung Diseases, Fungal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D012233:Rhizopus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D020096:Zygomycosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery