Primary cutaneous cryptococcosis
✍ Scribed by José Luis Moreno Castillo; Gildo Del Negro; Elizabeth Heins-Vaccari; Natalina Takahashi Melo
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 745 KB
- Volume
- 96
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0301-486X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
A 7-year-old boy, without apparent underlying disease, but with a non-specific failure in his cellular immunity, developed a cutaneous lesion on the left retroauricular area with spontaneous healing. Mycologic study revealed Cryptococcus neoformans, a capsule deficient strain, as the etiologic agent.
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
A case of primary cutaneous nocardiosis due to Nocardia asteroides occurring in a steroid-dependent asthmatic with no history of trauma is presented. He had a 5 month history of painful nodules on his right shin and calf. He was initially treated with a 6 week course of oral cephalexin 500 mg four t