Disseminated aspergillosis with thyroid and bone localization: A case report

Abstract

We describe an original case of disseminated aspergillosis (pulmonary, thyroid and vertebral) in a 13-year-old girl from Tunisia. The patient had presented a thyroid node and a knee mass. The scintigraphy confirmed the cold thyroid node and an increased bone uptake in the left knee, the 5th left coast, the femur and the hip. The histological and mycological examinations concluded to an aspergillosis with Aspergillus flavus . The outcome was rapidly fatal. Few reports have been published on thyroid aspergillosis localization. This major mycosis occurs in children with septic family granulomatosis whose forecast remains dark.