Open AccessHISTOPLASMOSIS OF THE KIDNY A CASE REPORT FROM IAPAN
Author(s) -
Will D.W.,
Hasegawa CM.,
Kawauchi T.,
Murashima S.
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
acta patholigica japonica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 74
ISSN - 0001-6632
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1827.1964.tb00682.x
Subject(s) - histoplasmosis , medicine , histoplasma capsulatum , lesion , tuberculosis , pathology , histoplasma , dermatology , lung , pulmonary tuberculosis
Summary A case is presented of isolated renal histoplasmosis in a Nagasaki woman who died of pulmonary tuberculosis following massive X‐ray therapy for squamous carcinoma of the mouth. No primary pulmonary lesion was identified. While the patient's history includes a 40 year residence in malaysia and a brief internment in New Delhi where a few cases of histoplasmosis have been reported, she had been in Japan for 16 years prior to her death. In view of the presently‐known absence of viability of Histoplasma in old primary foci, it was concluded that the infection was acquired in Japan and represents the first case of H. capsulatum infection reported from Japan.