Cryptococcus: A Rare Cause of Parotid Abscess in Liver Cirrhosis

A 61-year-old man with decompensated liver cirrhosis presented with a parotid mass. Fine-needle aspiration of the parotid gland revealed Cryptococcus neoformans. Lumbar puncture confirmed cryptococcal meningitis. Multiple splenic lesions with radiographic features consistent with cryptococcal spleni...

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Autores principales: Okamoto, Takeshi, Fukuda, Katsuyuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7685856/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33282423
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8849448
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description A 61-year-old man with decompensated liver cirrhosis presented with a parotid mass. Fine-needle aspiration of the parotid gland revealed Cryptococcus neoformans. Lumbar puncture confirmed cryptococcal meningitis. Multiple splenic lesions with radiographic features consistent with cryptococcal splenic abscesses were also seen. Despite antifungal therapy, the patient died 17 days after infection was confirmed. This is the first report of a cryptococcal parotid abscess in a patient with liver cirrhosis.
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spelling pubmed-76858562020-12-04 Cryptococcus: A Rare Cause of Parotid Abscess in Liver Cirrhosis Okamoto, Takeshi Fukuda, Katsuyuki Case Reports Hepatol Case Report A 61-year-old man with decompensated liver cirrhosis presented with a parotid mass. Fine-needle aspiration of the parotid gland revealed Cryptococcus neoformans. Lumbar puncture confirmed cryptococcal meningitis. Multiple splenic lesions with radiographic features consistent with cryptococcal splenic abscesses were also seen. Despite antifungal therapy, the patient died 17 days after infection was confirmed. This is the first report of a cryptococcal parotid abscess in a patient with liver cirrhosis. Hindawi 2020-11-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7685856/ /pubmed/33282423 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8849448 Text en Copyright © 2020 Takeshi Okamoto and Katsuyuki Fukuda. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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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title_full Cryptococcus: A Rare Cause of Parotid Abscess in Liver Cirrhosis
title_fullStr Cryptococcus: A Rare Cause of Parotid Abscess in Liver Cirrhosis
title_full_unstemmed Cryptococcus: A Rare Cause of Parotid Abscess in Liver Cirrhosis
title_short Cryptococcus: A Rare Cause of Parotid Abscess in Liver Cirrhosis
title_sort cryptococcus: a rare cause of parotid abscess in liver cirrhosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7685856/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33282423
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8849448
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