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Tropical Diseases:

I Leishmaniasis
II Paracoccidioidomycosis
III Blastomycocis
IV Chromoblastomycosis
V Lepra
VI Sporotrichosis
VII Histoplasmosis
VIII Rhinosporidiosis
IX Mycetomas
X Rhinoscleroma
XI Chagasdisease
XII Actinomycosis
XIII Mucormycosis
XIV Amoebiasis
XV Protothecosis
XVI Lobomycosis
XVII Phaeohyphomycosis
XVIII Pruritus actinicus
XIX Bite of snake
XX Coccidioidomycosis

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VII. Histoplasmosis

Case 50. Histoplasmosis / Liposarcoma

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Fig. 50-A1
Fig. 50-A1: Histoplasmosis

In a female patient hospitalized in Mérida / Venezuela for another disease, accidentally a perianal redness of the skin with small tumor-like nodules was found. The biopsy of the red skin with the small nodules resulted as a typical histoplasmosis. Unfortunately no other clinical dates of this are known. We present this here in order to compare it with another one where a liposarcoma of the right gluteal region was found. At this opportunity we will use the space to present the so-called "morning stars" which occur typically as macroconidias with radial proliferations together with thin hyphae in the culture of the mycelial form of H. caps. var. capsulatum at room temperature. At the contrary, the yeast form of the histoplasmas occurs in tissues of humans and animals at higher temperatures. These two forms are the reason to call this fungus "dimorphic". Furthermore we show two more pictures of the structure of fungi from the other variety of the genus Histoplasma capsulatm, the H.caps. var. duboisii.

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Facultad de Medicina
Universidad de Los Andes
Merida - Venezuela