Bilateral adrenal gland enlargement secondary to histoplasmosis mimicking adrenal metastases: Diagnosis with EUS-guided FNA

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 357-359

  Eloubeidi, Mohamad A ^a   Luz, Leticia P ^a   Crowe, David R ^b   Snowden, Cindi ^b   Morgan, Desiree E ^b   Arnoletti, Pablo J ^c  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenal metastases; Endoscopic ultrasound; Fine needle aspiration; Histoplasmosis; Left adrenal; Right adrenal

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; ITRACONAZOLE; METHENAMINE;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ADRENAL DISEASE; ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BILATERAL ADRENAL GLAND ENLARGEMENT; CASE REPORT; CELL INCLUSION; CHILL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; FEVER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; FUNGUS CULTURE; GRANULOMA; HISTIOCYTE; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NIGHT SWEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINALYSIS;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENAL GLANDS; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STAINING AND LABELING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77951732618     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.21210     Document Type: Article

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