Imaging findings of pulmonary blastomycosis in pediatric patients.
Blastomycosis
Chest
Children
Computed tomography
Extrapulmonary
Fungal infection
Lungs
Radiography
Journal
Pediatric radiology
ISSN: 1432-1998
Titre abrégé: Pediatr Radiol
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 0365332
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
09 2022
09 2022
Historique:
received:
08
11
2021
accepted:
14
05
2022
revised:
29
03
2022
pubmed:
11
6
2022
medline:
14
9
2022
entrez:
10
6
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Blastomycosis is caused by Blastomyces dermatitidis, a thermally dimorphic fungus that lives in the form of spores in the soil in North America. The main mode of transmission is through the inhalation of these spores. Despite the importance of knowing the imaging characteristics of blastomycosis given the suggested high rates of dissemination in symptomatic children, a paucity of literature focuses on the imaging patterns of blastomycosis in the pediatric population. In this review, we describe the main imaging findings of pediatric pulmonary blastomycosis and briefly review extrapulmonary manifestations of the disease. Familiarity with these imaging manifestations is important to aid in rapid diagnosis.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35687113
doi: 10.1007/s00247-022-05402-x
pii: 10.1007/s00247-022-05402-x
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1974-1984Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
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