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Acute Peritoneal Histoplasmosis Mimicking Ovarian Cancer and Review of the Literature on Histoplasma Peritonitis.

Ariel D SzvalbEduardo A Yepez GuevaraElizabeth EuscherKaren A NahmodDimitrios P Kontoyiannis
Published in: Open forum infectious diseases (2023)
Peritoneal histoplasmosis is a rare entity with few cases reported in the literature. We present a case of isolated acute peritoneal histoplasmosis that mimicked an advanced ovarian malignancy in a patient undergoing antitumor necrosis factor therapy for rheumatoid arthritis. We also reviewed the literature on Histoplasma peritonitis.
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