Case report: Blastomyces dermatitidis as a cause of middle lobe syndrome.
Kinzy JD, Powers WP, Baddour LM.
Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee Medical Center at Knoxville, USA.
Middle lobe syndrome is a clinical term used to describe right middle lobe atelectasis with or without bronchial compression. Fungal disease has been implicated rarely as a cause of middle lobe syndrome. This is a patient with Blastomyces dermatitidis infection who presented with right middle lobe syndrome.
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PMID: 8853069 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]