A CASES OF PULMONARY MYCOSIS COMPLICATING LEPROSY
1958 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 54-61
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1958 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 54-61
A case of leprosy in which pulmonary mycosis occurred was experienced. The patient was a 45 year old male with a history of leprosy of 20 years duration. He had received a total of 87 injections of Promin (13.05g) and the manifestations had become stabilized in the early part of 1956. In Sept. of the same year however, he had become afflicted with pleurisy of the right side. Streptomycin treatment was instituted after one month as there was a slight worsening in the symptoms whereupon he took a sudden turn for the worse with high fever and pain of the throat. The sputum was tuberculosis bacilli negative but a large number of mycotic spores and fibers were found. The general con-dition rapidly deteriorated and the patient died on November 9, 1956.
Autopsy findings verified the clinical diagnosis and changes due both to leprosy and mycosis were found.
