2000
DOI: 10.1136/thorax.55.12.1068
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Primary pulmonary botryomycosis: a late complication of foreign body aspiration

Abstract: Primary pulmonary botryomycosis is a rare cause of haemoptysis and can enter the diVerential diagnosis of a mass on the plain chest radiograph. The case history is presented of a 63 year old man with botryomycosis which was initially thought to be a bronchial carcinoma. When the diagnosis was made several years later it was found to be secondary to persisting vegetable material in the bronchial tree following previous aspiration.

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“…It may be related to the low dose and attenuated virulence of the infecting bacterium, dysfunctional immune mechanisms of the host, chronic diseases (diabetes mellitus, chronic granulomatous disease, alcoholism), AIDS and altered inflammatory responses caused by inadequate antibiotic treatment. 12,13 The diagnosis of pulmonary botryomycosis is difficult to make due to the varied and nonspecific nature of the symptoms and the radiologic abnormalities. Clinical symptoms are nonspecific and, in a number of case reports, described as mild.…”
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“…It may be related to the low dose and attenuated virulence of the infecting bacterium, dysfunctional immune mechanisms of the host, chronic diseases (diabetes mellitus, chronic granulomatous disease, alcoholism), AIDS and altered inflammatory responses caused by inadequate antibiotic treatment. 12,13 The diagnosis of pulmonary botryomycosis is difficult to make due to the varied and nonspecific nature of the symptoms and the radiologic abnormalities. Clinical symptoms are nonspecific and, in a number of case reports, described as mild.…”
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“…En el sida se cree que la inadecuada liberación de linfocinas debido a un defecto en la función de los linfocitos T CD4 conduce a falla en la activación de enzimas bactericidas monocíticas, lo cual resulta en destrucción bacteriana deficiente en los macrófagos (19). El órgano más afectado es el pulmón (2,11,17), en donde se deben descartar patologías como la tuberculosis, la actinomicosis, la infección por micobacteras atípicas y la esporotricosis en el diagnóstico diferencial. Se ha descrito botriomicosis pulmonar primaria como resultado de inadecuado tratamiento antibiótico antibacteriano (8) y en trabajadores expuestos crónicamente a polvo aspirado (cemento) (2) y como consecuencia de la aspiración de cuerpos extraños (11).…”
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“…El órgano más afectado es el pulmón (2,11,17), en donde se deben descartar patologías como la tuberculosis, la actinomicosis, la infección por micobacteras atípicas y la esporotricosis en el diagnóstico diferencial. Se ha descrito botriomicosis pulmonar primaria como resultado de inadecuado tratamiento antibiótico antibacteriano (8) y en trabajadores expuestos crónicamente a polvo aspirado (cemento) (2) y como consecuencia de la aspiración de cuerpos extraños (11). La enfermedad es indolente y cursa con dolor torácico, pérdida de peso, disnea y hemoptisis (8).…”
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“…9,10 Apart from this, the retention of vegetable remnants in the bronchial tree may be responsible for the presence of certain symptoms of pulmonary superinfection. 11,12 Due to the morphologic characteristics of the vegetable tissues in the pulmonary parenchyma, some elements may originate parasite-like structures in histologic sections, necessitating a differential diagnosis with pulmonary parasitosis 13 and certain arthropods, such as Armillifer armillatus, and worms, such as Ascaris lumbricoides.In other types of samples, such as cytologic smears, the presence of vegetable elements may be a chance finding, generally related with contamination of the sample, 14 or indeed may be the cause of a specific process. 15 The recognition of uncommon morphologic structures, and their comparison with others already known, in both histologic sections and cellular smears, may be useful when it comes to establishing a diagnosis, avoiding confusion with other pathogenic elements.…”
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