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| Basílio-de-Oliveira,Carlos Alberto; Eyer-Silva,Walter A.; Valle,Heliomar de Azevedo; Rodrigues,Ana Lúcia; Pimentel,Ana Luisa Pinheiro; Morais-de-Sá,Carlos Alberto. |
| Mycobacterial pseudotumor (MP) is a rare pathologic presentation of both Mycobacterium tuberculosis and non-tuberculous mycobacterial disease, hitherto reported to occur only in immunosuppressed patients with or without human immunodeficiency virus infection. This lesion shares close pathologic resemblance to certain mesenchymal neoplasms, particularly Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), from which it must be properly differentiated due to distinct prognosis and therapy. We report a case of MP obliterating the lumen of the appendix vermiformis in a 34-year-old patient who died of complications of AIDS at our hospital in Rio de Janeiro. A total of 24 cases of MP (including our patient) have been described in the literature. MP has been found especially in lymph nodes,... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/report |
Palavras-chave: HIV infection; Kaposi's sarcoma; Mycobacterium; Pseudotumor; Spindle cell. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702001000200008 |
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