Invasive Aspergillus infection localized to the gastric wall: report of a case (original) (raw)

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Invasive aspergillosis is most commonly seen in patients with immune disorders and usually in the lung. Local invasive aspergillosis of the gastrointestinal system is quite rare. A 13-year-old female without immune deficiency presented with acute abdomen due to full-thickness necrosis of the gastric fundus. The necrotic gastric wall was excised and the stomach repaired. The pathology revealed a gastric ulcer with invading Aspergillus hyphae and spores. Aspergillosis is an opportunistic infection and its spores cannot survive in the normal gastric mucosa. The Aspergillus spores in this case probably grew on a background of gastric ulcer and caused wall necrosis and that the surgical treatment possibly provided a cure because it remained localized to the gastric wall.

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  1. Department of Pediatric Surgery, Dr. Sami Ulus Children’s Hospital, Babür Cad., No: 44, Altındağ, 06080, Ankara, Turkey
    Ibrahim Karaman, Ayşe Karaman & Derya Erdoğan
  2. Department of Pathology, Dr. Sami Ulus Children’s Hospital, Babür Cad., No: 44, Altındağ, 06080, Ankara, Turkey
    Esin Cengiz Boduroğlu
  3. Department of Pediatric Infectious Disease, Dr. Sami Ulus Children’s Hospital, Babür Cad., No: 44, Altındağ, 06080, Ankara, Turkey
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  1. Ibrahim Karaman
  2. Ayşe Karaman
  3. Esin Cengiz Boduroğlu
  4. Derya Erdoğan
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Karaman, I., Karaman, A., Boduroğlu, E.C. et al. Invasive Aspergillus infection localized to the gastric wall: report of a case.Surg Today 43, 682–684 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00595-012-0255-0

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