title: [Pathological fracture revealing an osseous histoplasmosis. A case report on a 60-year patient].
abstract: The authors report a new case of African Histoplasmosis in a 60-year-old patient. It was an humeral localization revealing a pathological fracture which grew into an extension of osteolysis and a cutaneous fistulization likely to be a malignant bone tumor. The case has been diagnosed by surgical biopsy and histological analysis. Its antifungal treatment in progress resulted in the drainage of the out-flow that should permit the bone reconstruction by graft. The authors stress on the need to focus on this affection whenever, in a tropical area, one is faced with any chronic bone fistula that cannot positively be cured in spite of sound medical cares.
authors.affiliation: Service de chirurgie orthopédique et traumatologique, CHU de Brazzaville, BP 32, Congo.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ngatse-Oko
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Péko
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ntsiba
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ngolet
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kokolo
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ondzoto
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Carme
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Moyikoua
mesh_terms: D001847:Bone Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D005598:Fractures, Spontaneous / Q000209:etiology*; D006660:Histoplasmosis / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D006810:Humeral Fractures / Q000209:etiology*; D008875:Middle Aged