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Pulmonary mucormycosis is an uncommon infection and its endobronchial form is rare. Fever, cough, dyspnoea and hemoptysis are the usual presenting symptoms. Hoarseness of voice, a rare manifestation of endobronchial mucormycosis, has been reported earlier but its exact anatomical basis was unclear. We report an instance of polypoid endobronchial mucormycosis and vocal cord paralysis in a patient with type I diabetes and diabetic ketoacidosis.
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PMID:Pulmonary mucormycosis presenting with recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy. 1471 Sep 82

Rhizopus species is an opportunistic fungus that is contracted by inhalation of aerosolized spores. Early diagnosis is often difficult but is a necessity to prevent rapid progression of the infection that leads to blood vessel invasion by hyphae, causing fatal hemoptysis. A previous case report described the utility of cytologic examination of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid in achieving a prompt diagnosis of Rhizopus species in an adolescent patient with diabetic ketoacidosis. The author presents a case that further describes the benefit of performing BAL fluid cytology to help identify fungal morphology characteristics in order to reach an expeditious diagnosis of Rhizopus species in a leukemia patient.
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PMID:Nosocomial pulmonary Rhizopus diagnosed by bronchoalveolar lavage with cytology in a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. 1662 74

A 19-year-old female with a 3-day history of high temperature, productive cough and dyspnoea was admitted due to diabetic ketoacidosis and pneumonia of the right lower lobe. Antibiotics (amoxicillin-clavulanic acid), insulin, fluids and electrolytes were administered, as appropriate. The patient was doing well (normal temperature, normal glucose levels, normal acid-base balance) until the sixth day of hospitalization, when she reported bouts of cough when swallowing liquids. Barium oesophagography revealed the presence of a broncho-oesophageal fistula (BOF). Congenital BOFs are rare developmental malformations (only just over 100 reported cases in the literature), which are attributable to persistent attachments between the tracheobronchial tree and the oesophagus. When not combined with oesophageal atresia, symptoms may not appear until adult life. History of recurrent respiratory infections, bronchiectasis, haemoptysis and chronic cough associated with eating, may indicate investigation with conventional or multi-positional oesophagography. At the time that surgery was decided, our patient developed persistent pneumonia of both the middle and the lower right lobes. A fistulous tract between the medial segmental bronchus and the oesophagus was removed, along with right middle lobectomy. Post-operative clinical course was excellent.
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PMID:Congenital broncho-oesophageal fistula: An unusual cause of persistent pneumonia in a young adult. 2602 9