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- ItemSystemic sporotrichosis. Pulmonary complications of a well-known cutaneous fungal disease : a case report(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1982) Matthews, H. J.; Joubert, J. R.; Truter, F. C.; Van der Walt, J. J.Pulmonary involvement during Sporotrichium schenkii infection can present as either primary pulmonary or systemic disease. The clinical and radiological features in the primary form closely resemble those of adult-type tuberculosis. On clinical, radiological and histopathological grounds pulmonary involvement during systemic spread can be difficult to distinguish from sarcoidosis. The diagnostic and therapeutic problems encountered in a woman with systemic sporotrichosis infection with pulmonary involvement are described.