In the Literature

Meeralam and colleagues describe their experience with 5 patients with gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis seen at King Abdullah Medical City in Saudi Arabia.These are briefly summarized here.Case 1 was a 23-year-old man who presented with worsening upper abdominal pain, weight loss, bloody diarrhea, and 26.9% eosinophilia.A right iliac fossa mass was palpable, and computed tomography demonstrated irregular thickening of the wall of the cecum and distal ileum with mesenteric lymphadenopathy.A large polypoid lesion in the cecum was seen on colonoscopy, as was terminal ileal erythema and ulceration, and histopathology demonstrated chronic inflammation with eosinophils; fungal