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Total splenic infarct due to Aspergillus and AIDS
1Department of Radiology, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Medical School, 676 North St. Clair Street, Suite 800, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. fmiller@northwestern.edu
Clinical Imaging
|July 4, 2001
Abstract:
Invasive aspergillosis is a rare but important cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with AIDS. In the majority of patients, invasive aspergillosis involves the lungs. Extrapulmonary involvement with total splenic infarction has not been previously described. We illustrate a patient who developed total splenic infarction and septic emboli to the brain from Aspergillus.