Date: 26 November 2013
CT scans of thorax. Anterior left-sided bronchiectasis with extensive mucous plugging and with some proximal bronchiectasis and plugging on the right.
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Extensive multilobar, varicose bronchiectasis, with some cyst formation most marked on the left anteriorly. Also some inhomogeneity of the pulmonary parenchyma secondary to air trapping in several affected segments.
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Aspergillosis in the coral sea fan Gorgonia ventalina. Sea fan coral Gorgonia ventalina, Florida Keys, USA. Depth ~5 metres, showing a lesion surrounded by a band of purple tissue. Central areas of the lesion are devoid of coral tissue revealing the underlying axial skeleton. The purple areas are devoid of coral polyps and result from the increased production of purple sclerites (small, non-fused, carbonate skeletal elements). The purpled area also indicates the location of high fungal hyphal density and el
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Aspergillosis in the coral sea fan Gorgonia ventalina. In the Caribbean ond offshore USA the sea fan coral species Gorgonia ventalina is undergoing an epizootic due to Aspergillus sydowii infection. This species of Aspergillus is also known to be associated with food contamination and for opportunistic infection in humans.Taken in San Salvador, Bahamas. Bar represents 5cm. This sea fan was heavily colonized by algae.A -tumours and galls B -lesion C -purplingGalls are composed of axial skeleton and scl
