Abdominal Lymphonodular Cryptococcosis in an Immunocompetent Child

We describe our experience with an apparently immunocompetent child presenting with pyrexia of unknown origin without focal signs. Investigations revealed lymphadenopathy at lung hila, mesentery, and porta hepatis. The child had received at least two months of empiric antituberculous therapy (ATT) b...

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Autores principales: Zaidi, Mehjabeen, Qureshi, Sonia, Shakoor, Sadia, Fatima, Saira, Mir, Fatima
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4663295/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26649217
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/347403
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author Zaidi, Mehjabeen
Qureshi, Sonia
Shakoor, Sadia
Fatima, Saira
Mir, Fatima
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description We describe our experience with an apparently immunocompetent child presenting with pyrexia of unknown origin without focal signs. Investigations revealed lymphadenopathy at lung hila, mesentery, and porta hepatis. The child had received at least two months of empiric antituberculous therapy (ATT) before she came to us. A CT-guided biopsy revealed granulomatous inflammation. PAS stain showed yeasts which stained blue with Alcian blue, suggesting C. neoformans.
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spelling pubmed-46632952015-12-08 Abdominal Lymphonodular Cryptococcosis in an Immunocompetent Child Zaidi, Mehjabeen Qureshi, Sonia Shakoor, Sadia Fatima, Saira Mir, Fatima Case Rep Pediatr Case Report We describe our experience with an apparently immunocompetent child presenting with pyrexia of unknown origin without focal signs. Investigations revealed lymphadenopathy at lung hila, mesentery, and porta hepatis. The child had received at least two months of empiric antituberculous therapy (ATT) before she came to us. A CT-guided biopsy revealed granulomatous inflammation. PAS stain showed yeasts which stained blue with Alcian blue, suggesting C. neoformans. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4663295/ /pubmed/26649217 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/347403 Text en Copyright © 2015 Mehjabeen Zaidi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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Zaidi, Mehjabeen
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Shakoor, Sadia
Fatima, Saira
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Abdominal Lymphonodular Cryptococcosis in an Immunocompetent Child
title Abdominal Lymphonodular Cryptococcosis in an Immunocompetent Child
title_full Abdominal Lymphonodular Cryptococcosis in an Immunocompetent Child
title_fullStr Abdominal Lymphonodular Cryptococcosis in an Immunocompetent Child
title_full_unstemmed Abdominal Lymphonodular Cryptococcosis in an Immunocompetent Child
title_short Abdominal Lymphonodular Cryptococcosis in an Immunocompetent Child
title_sort abdominal lymphonodular cryptococcosis in an immunocompetent child
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4663295/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/347403
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