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Chlamydoconidia formation in zygomycosis due to Rhizopus species
M Kimura1, V J Schnadig, M R McGinnis
1Second Department of Pathology, Kinki University School of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Japan.
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
|December 31, 1998
Abstract:
An unusual case of endobronchial zygomycosis, which was caused by Rhizopus species and which disseminated to one kidney, occurred in a 36-year-old, diabetic man. The patient recovered fully following lobectomy, nephrectomy, amphotericin B therapy, and control of diabetes mellitus. An interesting histologic finding was the presence of chlamydoconidia formation within the resected lung lesion. To our knowledge, only one previous culture-proven case of zygomycosis has described chlamydoconidia formation in tissue.