HEPATIC INVOLVEMENT IN PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS

Authors

  • William Barbosa
  • Ana Lúcia S. S. Andrade

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/rpt.v12i3.21285

Abstract

Paracoccidioidomycosis involves the liver and/or the bile ducts in a considerablenumber of patients with the acute disseminated form of the disease in the lymphaticabdominal type. It may produce fatty degenerative changes in the hepatic parenchyma,acute hepatitis, chronic granulomatous hepatitis, moderate portal fibrosis andoccasionally marked necrosis. These changes are accompanied by jaundice. Frequentlyobstrutive extrahepatic jaundice dominates the clinicai manifestations.

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BARBOSA, W.; ANDRADE, A. L. S. S. HEPATIC INVOLVEMENT IN PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS. Revista de Patologia Tropical / Journal of Tropical Pathology, Goiânia, v. 12, n. 3, 2007. DOI: 10.5216/rpt.v12i3.21285. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/iptsp/article/view/21285. Acesso em: 22 dec. 2024.

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 3 (1983)

Section

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

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