progressive disseminated histoplasmosis
- progressive disseminated histoplasmosis
- a condition, seen primarily in infants and in immunocompromised adults, caused by dissemination of Histoplasma capsulatum from the lungs to other areas of the body; in the oral, pharyngeal, and gastrointestinal tracts it may cause ulceration, bleeding, or obstruction and in the central nervous system it may present as focal cerebritis or diffuse meningitis.
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