Abstract
Presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome is a multifocal choroiditis; it is not an uncommon cause of visual loss in patients who have positive cutaneous responses to histoplasmin tests. However, Histoplasma capsulatum infection is, most often, a pulmonary disease, or a systemically disseminated disorder, without visual symptoms. For this reason, a correspondence between the nonocular and ocular aspects of this disorder has been difficult to ascertain. In a series of eight patients with histoplasmosis, we found asymptomatic ocular lesions in six. We believe that the presence of asymptomatic lesions may have prevented earlier investigators from recognizing this correlation.
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