Aspergillosis
The lung of this immunocompromised teenager with neutropenia displayed brown nodules. This photo on the left
reveals an area of necrosis with very scanty surrounding inflammation. On the right is a silver stain of the necrotic
area which shows branching hyphae consistent with Aspergillus species. The patient had acute myelogenous
leukemia superimposed on aplastic anemia and had received chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
1 minute clinical correlation