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Spontaneously resolving pulmonary lesions in paracoccidioidomycosis

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A case of spontaneously healed pulmonary paracoccidioidal lesions is reported. The correlation of reported cases of regressive lesions with the clinical forms of the mycosis is attempted.

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  1. Departamento de Patologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil

    Ivanir S. Melo

  2. Pesquisador do CNPq, Brazil

    A. T. Londero

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Melo, I.S., Londero, A.T. Spontaneously resolving pulmonary lesions in paracoccidioidomycosis. Mycopathologia 82, 57–59 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00436947

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