PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Allen, D
AU  - Ng, S
AU  - Beaton, K
AU  - Taussig, D
TI  - Sternal osteomyelitis caused by <em>Aspergillus fumigatus</em> in a patient with previously treated Hodgkin’s disease
AID  - 10.1136/jcp.55.8.616
DP  - 2002 Aug 01
TA  - Journal of Clinical Pathology
PG  - 616--618
VI  - 55
IP  - 8
4099  - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/55/8/616.short
4100  - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/55/8/616.full
SO  - J Clin Pathol2002 Aug 01; 55
AB  - This report details the case of a 67 year old woman with sternal osteomyelitis caused by Aspergillus fumigatus. She was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease in 1975 and was successfully treated with chemotherapy. A lobectomy for recurrence localised to the left lung was complicated nine years later by severe bronchiectasis, for which she required a total left sided pneumonectomy. At surgery, a non-invasive aspergillus was found. She presented eight years later with symptoms that were initially attributed to recurrence of Hodgkins’s disease, but on investigation were found to be caused by fungal sternal osteomyelitis. Treatment with itraconazole suspension at a dose of 400 mg daily was successful.