Chronic Necrotizing Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis With Elements of Bronchocentric Granulomatosis.
- Author:
Doh Hyung KIM
1
;
Jae Hyun LEE
;
Byung Ha KIM
;
Eun Kyung CHOI
;
Jae Seok PARK
;
Keun Youl KIM
;
Young Hi CHOI
;
Na Hye MYONG
;
Kye Young LEE
Author Information
1. Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Dankook University, Chonan, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Aspergillosis;
granulomatous disease;
chronic
- MeSH:
Aspergillosis/etiology/*pathology;
Case Report;
Chronic Disease;
Female;
Granuloma/etiology/pathology;
Human;
Lung Diseases, Fungal/etiology/*pathology;
Middle Age;
Necrosis
- From:The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine
2002;17(2):138-142
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
Chronic necrotizing pulmonary aspergillosis (CNPA) is an unusual form of pulmonary aspergillosis arising in the setting of mildly immune compromised state or altered local defense system. CNPA rarely shows histological findings mimicking bronchocentric granulomatosis (BCG), which is characterized by peribronchiolar granulomatous destruction. We describe a case representing CNPA with elements of BCG. A-64 year-old woman was admitted because of atypical pneumonia with multi-focal variable sized consolidations and cavitary lesions on high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT). The open lung biopsy specimen showed large areas of necrotizing pneumonia with some scattered aspergillus hyphae within the lung parenchyma. Some terminal bronchioles were found to be destroyed and were replaced by peribronchiolar granulomatous inflammation. There was no evidence of angioinvasion by aspergillus or aspergillous emboli. Despite vigorous antifungal agent and steroid treatment, she died of acute airway obstruction by bronchial casts on the thirty-fourth hospital day.
