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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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author Philip, Kandathil Joseph
Kaur, Rupinder
Sangeetha, Mohan
Masih, Kanwal
Singh, Navjot
Mani, Anna
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-34807722012-10-30 Disseminated cryptococcosis presenting with generalized lymphadenopathy Philip, Kandathil Joseph Kaur, Rupinder Sangeetha, Mohan Masih, Kanwal Singh, Navjot Mani, Anna J Cytol Case Report 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. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3480772/ /pubmed/23112464 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9371.101175 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Cytology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Philip, Kandathil Joseph
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3480772/
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