Table 3.

Summary data of reported cases of colonic aspergillosis

Source, year	Age (years)/sex	Origin of report	Underlying disease/medication	Clinical presentations	Duration of onset	Dissemination	Colonic distribution	Endoscopic finding	Treatment and outcome	Diagnosed from
Kinder and Jourdan,39 1985	37/female	UK	Post-renal transplant, immunosuppressive agents	LGIB	Acute	Yes	Cecum and sigmoid colon	Ulcer	Amphotericin B and surgery → died	Deep tissue involvement in surgical specimen
Prescott et al,9 1992	62/female	UK	AML, chemotherapy, neutropenia	Fever, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and vomiting	Acute	No	Not mentioned	Ulcer	Not mentioned → died	Deep tissue involvement in autopsy
Prescott et al,9 1992	43/male	UK	CML, chemotherapy, neutropenia	Fever	Acute	Yes	Transverse colon	Pseudomembrane	Not mentioned → died	No deep tissue involvement in colon but definite other organ involvement
Prescott et al,9 1992	66/female	UK	CA stomach, chemotherapy, neutropenia	Fever	Acute	Yes	Transverse colon	Necrosis	Not mentioned → died	Deep tissue involvement in autopsy
Sousa et al,40 2002	21/female	Portugal	Aplastic anemia	Fever, abdominal pain	Subacute	No	Cecum	Mass	Surgery → died	Deep tissue involvement in surgical specimen
Finn et al,41 2006	75/female	Ireland	Aplastic anemia, immunosuppressive agents	Fever, abdominal pain	Acute	No	Cecum	Ulcer with necrosis	Amphotericin B and surgery → died	Deep tissue involvement in surgical specimen
Andres et al,42 2007	42/female	USA	Burn	Abdominal pain, distension, LGIB	Acute	No	Whole colon	Necrosis	None	Deep tissue involvement in surgical specimen
Mohite et al,43 2007	42/male	UK	AML, chemotherapy, neutropenia	Fever, diarrhea, abdominal pain, Abdominal distension	Acute	No	Whole colon	Ulcer with necrosis	Caspofungin and surgery → improved	Deep tissue involvement in surgical Specimen and responded to treatment
Choi et al,44 2010	72/male	Korea	DM, steroid, CA colon	LGIB	Acute	No	Sigmoid colon and descending colon	Ulcer	Amphotericin B → improved	Responded to treatment

Abbreviations: AML, acute myeloid leukemia; CA, cancer; CML, chronic myeloid leukemia; DM, diabetes mellitus; LGIB, lower gastrointestinal bleeding.