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Asociación Colombiana de Gastroenterologia
2023
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- Periampullary Mass as an Unusual Manifestation of Coccidioidomycosis. Case Report and Literature Review Jhoan Sebastian Cruz-Barbosa Andrés Felipe Valencia-Cardona Armando Daniel Cortés-Buelvas Medicina Colombia jaundice Coccidioides systemic mycosis periampullary tumor In Colombia, coccidioidomycosis is a rare entity, and the intestinal manifestation is infrequent, with around a dozen cases reported in the world literature. This article reports the case of a 29-year-old male Venezuelan immigrant with a 4-month history of abdominal pain, jaundice, nausea, and vomiting. The tomography and the endoscopic study revealed a circumferential exophytic mass in the second portion of the duodenum. The biopsy revealed multiple spherules filled with round fungal endospores with a final diagnosis of disseminated coccidioidomycosis. The patient was discharged before the final pathology report with fluconazole doses of 200 mg every other day and an order for outpatient magnetic resonance cholangiography for outpatient follow-up, which he has not attended. 2023 otro 0120-9957 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=337782275018 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3377/337782275018/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3377/337782275018/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3377/337782275018/337782275018.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3377/337782275018/movil 10.22516/25007440.965 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3377 Revista Colombiana de Gastroenterología application/pdf Asociación Colombiana de Gastroenterologia Revista Colombiana de Gastroenterología (Colombia) Num.3 Vol.38