Mycobacterial spindle cell pseudotumor of the appendix vermiformis in a patient with AIDS

Mycobacterial pseudotumor (MP) is a rare pathologic presentation of both Mycobacterium tuberculosis and non-tuberculous mycobacterial disease, hitherto reported to occur only in immunosuppressed patients with or without human immunodeficiency virus infection. This lesion shares close pathologic rese...

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Main Authors: Carlos Alberto Basílio-de-Oliveira, Walter A. Eyer-Silva, Heliomar de Azevedo Valle, Ana Lúcia Rodrigues, Ana Luisa Pinheiro Pimentel, Carlos Alberto Morais-de-Sá
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
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