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Disseminated cryptococcosis presenting with generalized lymphadenopathy

Cryptococcosis is a common opportunistic infection among immunocompromised individuals. Some of the commonly affected sites are respiratory and central nervous system. Lymph node is an unusual site of involvement which could mimic tuberculosis, as seen in our case. We report a 32-year-old male immun...

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Autores principales: Philip, Kandathil Joseph, Kaur, Rupinder, Sangeetha, Mohan, Masih, Kanwal, Singh, Navjot, Mani, Anna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3480772/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23112464
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9371.101175
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Sumario:Cryptococcosis is a common opportunistic infection among immunocompromised individuals. Some of the commonly affected sites are respiratory and central nervous system. Lymph node is an unusual site of involvement which could mimic tuberculosis, as seen in our case. We report a 32-year-old male immunocompromised patient presenting with generalized lymphadenopathy who was clinically suspected to have tuberculous lymphadenitis. He was diagnosed to have disseminated cryptococcosis on fine needle aspiration cytology and fungal isolation on culture.