Pulmonary Phycomycetoma in a Patient with Diabetes Mellitus1,2
- 1 September 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Thoracic Society in American Review of Respiratory Disease
- Vol. 116 (3) , 519-523
- https://doi.org/10.1164/arrd.1977.116.3.519
Abstract
Phycomycetes are ubiquitous saprophytic fungi sharing with other fungi a propensity for invasion and disease production in immunologically compromised hosts. Diabetes mellitus, in particular diabetic ketoacidosis, is a common clinical setting for phycomycosis. A pulmonary phycomycetoma was diagnosed in a diabetic patient from material obtained by bronchial brushing and was treated successfully with a combination of surgery and amphotericin B.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Phycomycosis Complicating Leukemia and LymphomaAnnals of Internal Medicine, 1972