Several notable problems on pulmonary fungal disease / 中国实用内科杂志

ABSTRACT

Fungal infection of lung has been a common disease.The complicated clinical manifestations make its diagnosis and treatment difficult.The following should be paid attention to.First,different pulmonary mycosis may have very different clinical characteristics,so the diagnostic standard and therapy should be established accordingly.Second,the proven cases of candida pneumonia are decreasing,probably because of the decreasing needs for biopsies.So candida pneumonia seems still common.Third,different types of endemic pulmonary mycosis have distinguishing characteristics.Some cases could be misdiagnosed as cancers or other diseases,which we should be aware of.