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Cytodiagnostic pitfalls in pulmonary coccidioidomycosis
1Department of Pathology, Saint Agnes Medical Center, Fresno, CA, USA.
Diagnostic Cytopathology
|March 1, 1995
Abstract:
Two cases of pulmonary coccidioidomycosis which were initially misdiagnosed as carcinoma in cytologic examinations of material obtained by bronchoscopy or fine-needle aspiration are reported. The cytodiagnostic pitfalls of misinterpreting reactive bronchial epithelial cells as carcinoma cells and of failing to recognize fungal organisms are discussed.