Colonic basidiobolomycosis with liver involvement masquerading as gastrointestinal lymphoma: a case report and literature review

Rev Soc Bras Med Trop. 2017 Sep-Oct;50(5):712-714. doi: 10.1590/0037-8682-0057-2017.

Abstract

Basidiobolomycosis is an unusual fungal skin infection that rarely involves the gastrointestinal tract. This study reported a 5-year-old boy with gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis that had been misdiagnosed as gastrointestinal lymphoma. He was treated by surgical resection and a combination of posaconazole and amphotericin B deoxycholate with an acceptable response and no recurrence.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Amphotericin B / therapeutic use
  • Antifungal Agents / therapeutic use
  • Child, Preschool
  • Colonic Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Colonic Diseases / microbiology*
  • Colonic Diseases / pathology
  • Deoxycholic Acid / therapeutic use
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Drug Combinations
  • Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / pathology
  • Humans
  • Liver Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Liver Diseases / microbiology*
  • Liver Diseases / pathology
  • Lymphoma / diagnosis*
  • Lymphoma / pathology
  • Male
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Triazoles / therapeutic use
  • Zygomycosis* / diagnostic imaging
  • Zygomycosis* / drug therapy
  • Zygomycosis* / pathology

Substances

  • Antifungal Agents
  • Drug Combinations
  • Triazoles
  • Deoxycholic Acid
  • posaconazole
  • Amphotericin B
  • amphotericin B, deoxycholate drug combination