Oral histoplasmosis after radiation therapy for laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma - 12/08/11
, Isabelle Accoceberry, MD b, Denis Malvy, MD, PhD a
Reprint requests: Khaled Ezzedine, MD, Unité de Médecine tropicale et Pathologie d’importation, Service de Médecine interne et des Maladies tropicales (Pr. Maïté Longy-Boursier), Hôpital Saint-André–CHU Bordeaux, 1, rue Jean Burguet, F-33 075 Bordeaux cedex, France.Bordeaux, France
Abstract |
Histoplasmosis is a usually asymptomatic deep fungal infection of tropical origin with respiratory entry and possible oral, pharyngeal, or metastatic localization. The condition represents an important imported systemic mycosis with oral involvement. We report the case of a patient who developed an oropharyngeal reactivation of a latent Histoplasma infection after receiving local antitumoral radiation therapy of the neck. H capsulatum was shown to be present in the lesion by both histopathology and staining, and was deduced to be the causative organism of the disease.
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Vol 56 - N° 5
P. 871-873 - mai 2007 Retour au numéro
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