Cervical blastomycosis masquerading as a thyroid mass. This is the first reported case of extrapulmonary blastomycosis manifesting as a thyroid mass

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 65-68

  Babu, Ambika ^a   Lacuesta, Evelyn ^a   Patel, Subhash ^a  

^a Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; IBUPROFEN; ITRACONAZOLE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BLASTOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; BLASTOMYCOSIS; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL BLASTOMYCOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FATIGUE; FEVER; FUNGUS CULTURE; GOITER; HUMAN; MALE; PAIN; SYMPTOM; THYROIDITIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BLASTOMYCES; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; THYROID TUMOR;

BIOPSY; BLASTOMYCES; BLASTOMYCOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GOITER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 23644458133     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP.11.1.65     Document Type: Conference Paper

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