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JOURNAL OF TROPICAL PEDIATRICS
Volume 47, Issue 5, Pages 311-315Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/47.5.311
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The authors describe a case of paracoccidioidomycosis in a 7-year-old girl from the city of Rio de Janeiro who initially presented to her physician with a lesion in her calcaneous which was misdiagnosed and treated as bacterial osteomyelitis. Later, cutaneous manifestations, lymph node enlargement, and hepatosplenomegaly developed and biopsy of the skin and cervical lymph nodes showed the fungus which was also present in the sputum. It is emphasized that Paracoccidioides brasiliensis can be the cause of bone lesions in endemic areas of Latin America and that response to treatment with amphotericin B is good.
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