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J Natl Med Assoc. 1998 October; 90(10): 625–627. | PMCID: PMC2608372 |
Pneumocystis carinii infection of the small intestine. K. Kinchen, T. H. Kinchen, and T. Inglesby, Jr Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. Abstract Extrapulmonary Pneumocystis carinii infections are rare in comparison to other opportunistic infections in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). In recent years, however, the number of reported cases of extrapulmonary pneumocystosis has increased. It is therefore important for physicians to recognize the various presentations of extrapulmonary P carinii infection. This article reports a case in which the initial clinically detected AIDS-related infection was extrapulmonary P carinii infection of the small intestine diagnosed after perforation of the jejunum. Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (526K), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Links to PubMed are also available for Selected References. These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article. - Raviglione MC. Extrapulmonary pneumocystosis: the first 50 cases. Rev Infect Dis. 1990 Nov–Dec;12(6):1127–1138. [PubMed]
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