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Aspergillosis

Aspergillosis (aspergillosis) – mycosis which is caused by parasitic fungi of the sort Aspergillus. Depending on defeat localization the disease is characterized by various clinical manifestations.

Allocate the following types of an aspergillosis:

  • Visceral (visceralis) – are surprised, preferential, internals (heart, lungs, a spleen, etc.);
  • Skin (cutis) – is surprised, preferential, skin with formation of ulcers, infiltrates, nodes, etc.;
  • Skin gummopodobny – is characterized by existence of hypodermic nodes which are abscessed with formation of fistulas;
  • Skin infiltrative and ulcer (cutis infiltrativa ulcerosa) – it is characterized by availability of infiltrates, inclined to an ulceration;
  • Skin papillomatous веррукозный (cutis papillomatosa verrucosa) – it is characterized by existence of warty growths;
  • Skin ekzemopodobny (cutis eczemoidea) – it is shown by changes which remind seborrheal or disgidrotichesky eczema;
  • Skin ulcer (cutis ulcerosa) – it is characterized by formation of inertly granulating ulcers;
  • Easy (pulmonum) – a visceral aspergillosis with damage of lungs; it is shown by a pneumorrhagia, formation of aspergillomas, pulmonary bleedings.
 
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