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Query: UMLS:C0038358 (gastric ulcer)
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Laparotomy of a 64-year-old woman with bleeding caused by a perforated anastomotic peptic gastric ulcer disclosed a mycotic abscess in the lower surface of the left hepatic lobe covering the ulcer. Fine needle aspiration (FNA) of the abscess produced a clear milky liquid that was positive for Aspergillus fungi by cytology and subsequent microbiologic and cultural studies. Postoperative diffusion of the aspergillosis into the subcutaneous tissue was similarly confirmed by cytology and Sabouraud solid medium culture. This appears to be the first case of disseminated aspergillosis diagnosed by intraoperative FNA cytology; it confirms that FNA cytology is a rapid, sensitive and important tool for the diagnosis of mycotic infections.
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PMID:Hepatic and subcutaneous abscesses due to aspergillosis. Initial diagnosis of a case by intraoperative fine needle aspiration cytology. 225 24

Invasive aspergillosis is most commonly seen in patients with immune disorders and usually in the lung. Local invasive aspergillosis of the gastrointestinal system is quite rare. A 13-year-old female without immune deficiency presented with acute abdomen due to full-thickness necrosis of the gastric fundus. The necrotic gastric wall was excised and the stomach repaired. The pathology revealed a gastric ulcer with invading Aspergillus hyphae and spores. Aspergillosis is an opportunistic infection and its spores cannot survive in the normal gastric mucosa. The Aspergillus spores in this case probably grew on a background of gastric ulcer and caused wall necrosis and that the surgical treatment possibly provided a cure because it remained localized to the gastric wall.
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PMID:Invasive Aspergillus infection localized to the gastric wall: report of a case. 2286 35