MYECETOMA AND ASPERGILLOMA

Pulmonary aspergilloma.

Cerebral aspergilloma.

Introduction Over the last decade extra-pulmonary aspergillosis has been reported with increasing frequency from the Middle and Far East. In the late 60s, 17 cases of paranasal aspergilloma, some with orbital involvement, were reported from the Sudan; Aspergillus flavus was found to be the causative organism in all 17 (Miloshev et al., 1966, 1969). A further 60 cases have been described from No...

Pulmonary aspergilloma/Aspergiloma pulmonar

Aspergilloma is an uncommon infection usually with invasion of lung cavities, often posing diagnostic challenges, and surgical treatment is not consensual.1,2 Clinical manifestations of aspergillosis include allergic bronchopulmonary and chronic necrotizing pulmonary disease, aspergilloma, and invasive infections.1,2 The diagnosis of pulmonary aspergillosis should be based on classical images, ...

Primary orbital aspergilloma.

Imaging diagnosis of aspergilloma

A 55-year-old man with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), has a history of noncompliance to antiretroviral therapy with recurrent opportunistic infections due to clostridium difficile and mycobacterium avium complex. He presented to the hospital with fever, diarrhea, weight loss and generalized weakness, and was diagnosed with clostridium...