In Reply.—It has come to the attention of Dr Mark and myself that our recent review article “The Pathology of Pulmonary Disorders Due to Aspergillus spp” contains several photomicrographs that were originally published in the excellent 1987 text Pathologic Diagnosis of Fungal Infections, authored by Drs Chandler and Watts, and that Figure 15 thought to represent pneumonia due to angioinvasive Aspergillus spp in fact represents a Pseudoallescheria infection.1,2
As primary author of the article, I was solely responsible for selecting the photomicrographs for the article. All the figures in the article were chosen from my digital teaching file labeled “Aspergillus.” At the time of preparing the manuscript, I believed that all of the images were derived from cases collected during the years by colleagues, residents, and myself, at my hospital, as they were not labeled as potentially being from another source.
After years of collecting photomicrographs, I confess that I am not always certain as to their provenance. However, this does not excuse my error. I apologize to Drs Watts and Chandler and to your readership. I hope that my colleagues will accept that my gaffe was inadvertent.