Cryptococcal Osteomyelitis in the Ribs

Isolated cryptococcal osteomyelitis, in an immunocompetent, is rare and only a few cases have been reported in literature. We present the case of a 30-year-old man presented with pain on the left side of chest with fever and gradually increasing swelling in left lateral lower aspect of chest. Invest...

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Autor principal: Sethi, Somika
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Pictorial Education
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2840966/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20300420
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.59253
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description Isolated cryptococcal osteomyelitis, in an immunocompetent, is rare and only a few cases have been reported in literature. We present the case of a 30-year-old man presented with pain on the left side of chest with fever and gradually increasing swelling in left lateral lower aspect of chest. Investigation revealed a lytic lesion in the anterior end of left 6(th) rib with normal CD4 count. He was tested negative for HIV antigen. Excision of the sixth rib, morphologically revealed cryptococcal osteomyelitis and the patient was given anti-fungal treatment for six months.
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spelling pubmed-28409662010-03-18 Cryptococcal Osteomyelitis in the Ribs Sethi, Somika J Glob Infect Dis Pictorial Education Isolated cryptococcal osteomyelitis, in an immunocompetent, is rare and only a few cases have been reported in literature. We present the case of a 30-year-old man presented with pain on the left side of chest with fever and gradually increasing swelling in left lateral lower aspect of chest. Investigation revealed a lytic lesion in the anterior end of left 6(th) rib with normal CD4 count. He was tested negative for HIV antigen. Excision of the sixth rib, morphologically revealed cryptococcal osteomyelitis and the patient was given anti-fungal treatment for six months. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2840966/ /pubmed/20300420 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.59253 Text en © Journal of Global Infectious Diseases http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Cryptococcal Osteomyelitis in the Ribs
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title_full Cryptococcal Osteomyelitis in the Ribs
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title_full_unstemmed Cryptococcal Osteomyelitis in the Ribs
title_short Cryptococcal Osteomyelitis in the Ribs
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2840966/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20300420
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