Cardiac botryomycosis: an autopsy report.
Visceral botryomycosis is rare, and documented sites are lung, brain, kidney, liver and prostate. This report describes a rare autopsy case of disseminated visceral botryomycosis, with bulky, grape-like botryomycotic vegetations in the heart, and similar abscesses in the lungs and bone marrow. This is the first such report in the literature to the best of our knowledge.
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Department of Histopathology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
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Bhalla
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D000038:Abscess / Q000473:pathology; D000328:Adult; D001855:Bone Marrow Diseases / Q000473:pathology; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000473:pathology*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008169:Lung Abscess / Q000473:pathology; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000473:pathology*