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Pure Aspergillus fungus colony with branching septate hyphae (single arrow), along with fruiting body (double arrows). Inset picture showing skin dehiscence (bold arrow) with exposure of distal end of shunt at the supraclavicular region (H and E, x400)
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A 4-year-old male child presented to our institute with exposed shunt tube at supraclavicular fossa for 1 month [Figure 1 - inset]. The histopathology report of scrape material obtained after slit opening, the abdominal end of shunt tube showed pure colony of fruiting bodies with acute branching septate fungi of Aspergillus [Figure 1], no inflammatory cells, or any tissue reaction was seen.