Disseminated Cryptococcosis in a Patient With Metastatic Prostate Cancer Who Died in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak

We report the case of a 61-year-old patient with a history of prostate cancer affected by bone metastasis. He presented to our attention for ulcerous and necrotic cutaneous lesions unresponsive to antibiotics. The spread of cutaneous lesions and the onset of neurological symptoms suggested a cryptoc...

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Autores principales: Passerini, Matteo, Terzi, Roberta, Piscaglia, Marco, Passerini, Simone, Piconi, Stefania
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7309194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32596073
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8254
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author Passerini, Matteo
Terzi, Roberta
Piscaglia, Marco
Passerini, Simone
Piconi, Stefania
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description We report the case of a 61-year-old patient with a history of prostate cancer affected by bone metastasis. He presented to our attention for ulcerous and necrotic cutaneous lesions unresponsive to antibiotics. The spread of cutaneous lesions and the onset of neurological symptoms suggested a cryptococcal disease, which was confirmed by lumbar puncture and cutaneous biopsy. We present the diagnostic and therapeutic approach to this case.
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spelling pubmed-73091942020-06-25 Disseminated Cryptococcosis in a Patient With Metastatic Prostate Cancer Who Died in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak Passerini, Matteo Terzi, Roberta Piscaglia, Marco Passerini, Simone Piconi, Stefania Cureus Dermatology We report the case of a 61-year-old patient with a history of prostate cancer affected by bone metastasis. He presented to our attention for ulcerous and necrotic cutaneous lesions unresponsive to antibiotics. The spread of cutaneous lesions and the onset of neurological symptoms suggested a cryptococcal disease, which was confirmed by lumbar puncture and cutaneous biopsy. We present the diagnostic and therapeutic approach to this case. Cureus 2020-05-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7309194/ /pubmed/32596073 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8254 Text en Copyright © 2020, Passerini et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Dermatology
Passerini, Matteo
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Piscaglia, Marco
Passerini, Simone
Piconi, Stefania
Disseminated Cryptococcosis in a Patient With Metastatic Prostate Cancer Who Died in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak
title Disseminated Cryptococcosis in a Patient With Metastatic Prostate Cancer Who Died in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak
title_full Disseminated Cryptococcosis in a Patient With Metastatic Prostate Cancer Who Died in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak
title_fullStr Disseminated Cryptococcosis in a Patient With Metastatic Prostate Cancer Who Died in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak
title_full_unstemmed Disseminated Cryptococcosis in a Patient With Metastatic Prostate Cancer Who Died in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak
title_short Disseminated Cryptococcosis in a Patient With Metastatic Prostate Cancer Who Died in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak
title_sort disseminated cryptococcosis in a patient with metastatic prostate cancer who died in the coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) outbreak
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7309194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32596073
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8254
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