Chronic paracoccidioidomycosis is an endemic fungal infection in Latin
America and, although uncommon, the opening of the clinical condition
can be an obstructive abdominal syndrome that can simulate a pancreatic
head neoplasm. There are few cases like this reported in the literature.
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