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ArticleInternational journal of clinical and experimental medicine2014

Misdiagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis: a clinical analysis of 26 immunocompetent patients.

Rongrong Zhang, Sufang Wang, Huaiwei Lu, Zhihua Wang, Xiaoling Xu

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Article in International journal of clinical and experimental medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Rongrong ZhangThe Affiliated Provincial Hospital of Anhui Medical University Hefei 230001, P.R. China.
Sufang WangThe Affiliated Provincial Hospital of Anhui Medical University Hefei 230001, P.R. China.
Huaiwei LuDepartment of Microbiology, The Affiliated Provincial Hospital of Anhui Medical University Hefei 230001, P.R. China.
Zhihua WangDepartment of Pathology, The Affiliated Provincial Hospital of Anhui Medical University Hefei 230001, P.R. China.
Xiaoling XuDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, The Affiliated Provincial Hospital of Anhui Medical University Hefei 230001, P.R. China.
Anhui Provincial Hospital · CNAnhui Medical University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The clinical feature of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) in immunocompromised patients is well studied in the past decades. While the manifestations of IPA in immunocompetent patients remain unclear. The purpose of this study was to determine the clinical and radiological manifestations of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) in patients without immunosuppression, as well as the reasons for the misdiagnosis of IPA. We retrieved and retrospectively reviewed the records of 102 patients from whom surgical lung specimens of chronic inflammatory granulomas were harvested. 26 patients were eventually diagnosed with pulmonary aspergillosis on Grocott methenamine silver staining. We investigated these patients in detail. We found that the rate of misdiagnosis before the lung surgery was as high as 73%. The most common symptom was hemoptysis, and the main feature in radiology was nodule or mass lesion. Air crescent sign or Halo sign were not common in our study. The atypical radiological manifestations and non-specific clinical findings make the diagnosis of IPA difficult and lead to a high misdiagnosis rate.

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clinical characteristicsimmunocompetentInvasive pulmonary aspergillosisradiological features

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PMID25664007
PMCPMC4307454
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