da Silva Patrícia Zambone, Oliveira Flávio de Mattos, Severo Luiz Carlos
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.
Rev Soc Bras Med Trop. 2003 Nov-Dec;36(6):747-9.
In a review of the clinical records of 757 cases of paracoccidioidomycosis 11 (1.5%) of the patients had been previously submitted to gastrectomy. It is suggested that after gastrectomy individuals present a higher risk for the development of such infections, similar to that which occurs in tuberculosis.