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A native from Surinam (South America), known to have a chronic gonarthritis for 20 years, died from an acute disseminated histoplasmosis. His gonarthritis was retrospectively shown to have been due to histoplasmosis. Although histoplasmosis rarely presents as a monarthritis, unacquaintance with this entity may result in fatal acute dissemination of the histoplasmosis.
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Van Der Schee, A.C., Dinkla, B.A. & Festen, J.J.M. Gonarthritis as only manifestation of chronic disseminated histoplasmosis. Clin Rheumatol 9, 92–94 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02030251
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