A patient with a cough of several weeks' duration but no fever has radiological signs of a coin lesion. The needle biopsy shows large, broad-based budding yeasts with a very thick cell wall. Most of the yeasts are extracellular. What is the most likely diagnosis?

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The picture given is classical for the pulmonary lesions of blastomycosis, which cannot be differentiated from carcinoma without biopsy.

A Patient with a Cough of Several Weeks' Duration but No