SHORT REPORTS
Cardiac botryomycosis: an autopsy report
1 Department of Histopathology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
2 Department of Internal Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
Correspondence to:
Dr Kirti Gupta, Department of Pathology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160012 India; kirtigupta10{at}yahoo.co.in
Visceral botryomycosis is rare, and documented sites are lung, brain, kidney, liver and prostate. This report describes a rare autopsy case of disseminated visceral botryomycosis, with bulky, grape-like botryomycotic vegetations in the heart, and similar abscesses in the lungs and bone marrow. This is the first such report in the literature to the best of our knowledge.
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