Otic Infection Due to Pneumocystis carinii in an Apparently Healthy Man with Antibody to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus
- ROGER A. SCHINELLA, M.D.;
- STEPHEN D. BREDA, M.D.; and
- PAUL E. HAMMERSCHLAG, M.D.
Excerpt
Pneumocystis carinii rarely presents outside the lung; when it does, it occurs with lung involvement and severe disease. We report a case in which P. carinii presented as an otic polyp in an apparently healthy man. The patient, a former drug addict, had no evidence of pulmonary disease but had antibody to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
A 36-year-old Hispanic man had had several episodes of acute otitis media as a child that required bilateral myringotomy and tube placement. He was aware of progressively decreasing hearing in the left ear, which had become worse in the past year. He had
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Acknowledgments
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: The authors thank Loretta Ng-Rodriguez for technical assistance and Emanuel Zycband for photographic and electron microscopy assistance.
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▸Requests for reprints should be addressed to Roger A. Schinella, M.D.; Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue; New York, NY 10016.
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