TY - JOUR ID - 153336 TI - Pulmonary Blastomycosis Masquerading as Malignancy in India; Case From a Tertiary Hospital in South India JO - International Journal of Travel Medicine and Global Health JA - IJTMGH LA - en SN - 2322-1100 AU - Joshi, Divya Rakesh AU - Nambi, Senthur AU - Santosham, Rajan AU - Santosham, Rajiv AD - Department of Infectious Diseases, Apollo Hospital, Chennai, India AD - Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery Apollo Hospital, Chennai, India Y1 - 2022 PY - 2022 VL - 10 IS - 3 SP - 134 EP - 136 KW - Blastomycosis KW - Pulmonary Cancer KW - Hemoptysis DO - 10.34172/ijtmgh.2022.24 N2 - Introduction: Blastomycosis is an endemic granulomatous fungal infection involving multiple organ systems predominantly the lungs. The diverse clinical spectra of the pulmonary disease encompass a subclinical infection, an acute infection mimicking a bacterial pneumonia and a chronic variant masquerading as tuberculosis or malignancy.Case Presentation: Here we report a case of a middle-aged gentleman who was evaluated for a malignant pulmonary mass which was later identified as pulmonary blastomycosis. The diagnosis of blastomycosis was made through histopathology and was retrospectively corelated with a travel history to an endemic region.Conclusion: The endemicity of this infection contributes to the diagnostic dilemma in the non-endemic setup. This warrants a high clinical suspicion in patients with a chronic pulmonary syndrome with a travel history to an endemic area. UR - https://www.ijtmgh.com/article_153336.html L1 - https://www.ijtmgh.com/article_153336_74881d33c9f001fd1fd590499626e520.pdf ER -