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Abdominal and chest computed tomography (CT) scans before and after mucor infection. (A) The pre-transplant chest CT is presented without obvious abnormality. (B) On 18 days post-transplant, abdominal CT examination revealed a mixed density mass shadow in the medial inferior right side of kidney graft, hematoma considered. (C) The chest CT revealed patchy shadows in the left lung on 38 days after transplantation. (D) After 7 days of initial treatment, the cavity formed in the left lung can be seen in radiological examination. (E) A chest CT showed consolidation of the left upper lobe with a ground-glass density shadow, multiple nodules in both lungs on 52 days. (F) A chest CT showed the cavity in the upper left lung had become larger than that in the previous examination 2 weeks earlier.
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An abdominal computed tomography (CT) examination revealed mixed density mass shadow in the upper and medial inferior right side of the kidney graft, hematoma was considered (Figure 2).
Pathological presentation of pulmonary and splenic mucormycosis. (A) Percutaneous lung biopsy showed alveolar epithelial hyperplasia, interstitial hyperemia, inflammatory cell infiltration, and fungal hyphae and spores can be seen in necrotic tissues. (B) Pathological results of spleen tissue showed multifocal necrosis was formed under the spleen capsule with mycelia and spores (Arrow: mycelia).
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The results indicated that fungal hyphae and spores could be seen in the biopsies with a high suspicion of mucormycosis (Figure 3A). The pathological results of spleen tissue submitted revealed multiple necroses under capsule with visible mycelium and spores of mold (Figure 3B).