title: [Resected case of pulmonary mucormycosis].
abstract: A 62-year-old man, with chronic renal failure and receiving hemodialysis, pointed out to have an abnormal shadow on a chest X-ray. A chest computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) examination showed a 6 cm size mass lesion in the middle of left thoracic cavity. Confirmed diagnosis was not obtained by needle biopsies. Left upper lobectomy was performed on suspicion of a lung cancer. Histopathologically, fungal hyphae were detected in these surgical specimens and it was diagnosed as pulmonary mucormycosis caused by Rhizopus species.
authors: Department of Chest Surgery, Kumamoto Chuo Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan.
authors: Takashi
authors: T
authors: Marutsuka
authors: Yoshiko
authors: Y
authors: Masuda
authors: Tetsushi
authors: T
authors: Saishoji
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008172:Lung Diseases, Fungal / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009091:Mucormycosis / Q000601:surgery*