Acute Peritoneal Histoplasmosis Mimicking Ovarian Cancer and Review of the Literature on Histoplasma Peritonitis.
Ariel D SzvalbEduardo A Yepez GuevaraElizabeth EuscherKaren A NahmodDimitrios P KontoyiannisPublished 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.