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Large pulmonary cryptococcoma and cryptococcal meningitis in an immunocompetent patient: A case report

✍ Scribed by Ranbeer Singh; Deepti Joshi; Anupama Gupta; Nitin Gangane

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
149 KB
Volume
38
Category
Article
ISSN
8755-1039

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Abstract

Pulmonary cryptococcoma is a life threatening mycosis and is an unusual disease for immunocompetent individuals. Herein we report a case of large pulmonary cryptococcoma associated with cryptococcal meningitis, presenting radiologically as a lung mass in right upper lobe, in a previously healthy, HIV negative, immunocompetent young individual. Since cryptococcosis continues to be an important infection in HIV negative patients and is associated with substantial overall and cause‐specific mortality, the need for consideration of this entity in the differential diagnosis of a lung mass is emphasized. Diagn. Cytopathol. 2010;38:929–931. Β© 2010 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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