Mucormycosis: an unusual masquerader of an endobronchial tumour

Mucormycosis: an unusual masquerader of an endobronchial tumour

Pulmonary mucormycosis is a life‐threatening invasive fungal infection usually seen in the background of immunosuppression, haematological malignancies, or uncontrolled diabetes. Immunocompetent hosts can also be affected. Isolated endobronchial mucormycosis is rare with only a few cases reported in...

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Main Authors: Venugopal Jaganathan, Vijaya Prakash Madesh, Santhakumar Subramanian, Rajeshwari K. Muthusamy, Sangita S. Mehta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-12-01
Series:Respirology Case Reports
Subjects:
Endobronchial mucormycosis
endobronchial tumour
poorly controlled diabetes
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.488
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spelling doaj-9dfb21a96860454aaf50f5db340b6a692020-11-25T01:17:18ZengWileyRespirology Case Reports2051-33802019-12-0179n/an/a10.1002/rcr2.488Mucormycosis: an unusual masquerader of an endobronchial tumourVenugopal Jaganathan0Vijaya Prakash Madesh1Santhakumar Subramanian2Rajeshwari K. Muthusamy3Sangita S. Mehta4Department of Pulmonology Kovai Medical Center and Hospital Coimbatore Tamil Nadu IndiaDepartment of General Medicine Kovai Medical Center and Hospital Coimbatore Tamil Nadu IndiaDepartment of Pulmonology Kovai Medical Center and Hospital Coimbatore Tamil Nadu IndiaDepartment of Pathology Kovai Medical Center and Hospital Coimbatore Tamil Nadu IndiaDepartment of Pathology Kovai Medical Center and Hospital Coimbatore Tamil Nadu IndiaPulmonary mucormycosis is a life‐threatening invasive fungal infection usually seen in the background of immunosuppression, haematological malignancies, or uncontrolled diabetes. Immunocompetent hosts can also be affected. Isolated endobronchial mucormycosis is rare with only a few cases reported in the literature. Here, we present a case of an endobronchial mass masquerading as a tumour that was later diagnosed as invasive mucormycosis by histopathological examination.https://doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.488Endobronchial mucormycosisendobronchial tumourpoorly controlled diabetes
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author Venugopal Jaganathan
Vijaya Prakash Madesh
Santhakumar Subramanian
Rajeshwari K. Muthusamy
Sangita S. Mehta
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Vijaya Prakash Madesh
Santhakumar Subramanian
Rajeshwari K. Muthusamy
Sangita S. Mehta
Mucormycosis: an unusual masquerader of an endobronchial tumour
Respirology Case Reports
Endobronchial mucormycosis
endobronchial tumour
poorly controlled diabetes
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Vijaya Prakash Madesh
Santhakumar Subramanian
Rajeshwari K. Muthusamy
Sangita S. Mehta
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title Mucormycosis: an unusual masquerader of an endobronchial tumour
title_short Mucormycosis: an unusual masquerader of an endobronchial tumour
title_full Mucormycosis: an unusual masquerader of an endobronchial tumour
title_fullStr Mucormycosis: an unusual masquerader of an endobronchial tumour
title_full_unstemmed Mucormycosis: an unusual masquerader of an endobronchial tumour
title_sort mucormycosis: an unusual masquerader of an endobronchial tumour
publisher Wiley
series Respirology Case Reports
issn 2051-3380
publishDate 2019-12-01
description Pulmonary mucormycosis is a life‐threatening invasive fungal infection usually seen in the background of immunosuppression, haematological malignancies, or uncontrolled diabetes. Immunocompetent hosts can also be affected. Isolated endobronchial mucormycosis is rare with only a few cases reported in the literature. Here, we present a case of an endobronchial mass masquerading as a tumour that was later diagnosed as invasive mucormycosis by histopathological examination.
topic Endobronchial mucormycosis
endobronchial tumour
poorly controlled diabetes
url https://doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.488
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