Disseminated cryptococcosis with gastric and thyroid involvement

This is a case of disseminated cryptococcosis with gastrointestinal and thyroid involvement. This case illustrates that gastrointestinal and thyroid involvement may be an under-recognized phenomenon. Suspicion should be high in an immunocompromised patient with odynophagia and a thyroid nodule and w...

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Autores principales: Dhillon, Ramandeep, Sohal, Aalam, Wormser, Vanessa, Li, Lin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Case Illustrated
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8113989/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34012773
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01141
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author Dhillon, Ramandeep
Sohal, Aalam
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description This is a case of disseminated cryptococcosis with gastrointestinal and thyroid involvement. This case illustrates that gastrointestinal and thyroid involvement may be an under-recognized phenomenon. Suspicion should be high in an immunocompromised patient with odynophagia and a thyroid nodule and warrants further investigation by endoscopy and fine needle aspiration biopsy.
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spelling pubmed-81139892021-05-18 Disseminated cryptococcosis with gastric and thyroid involvement Dhillon, Ramandeep Sohal, Aalam Wormser, Vanessa Li, Lin IDCases Case Illustrated This is a case of disseminated cryptococcosis with gastrointestinal and thyroid involvement. This case illustrates that gastrointestinal and thyroid involvement may be an under-recognized phenomenon. Suspicion should be high in an immunocompromised patient with odynophagia and a thyroid nodule and warrants further investigation by endoscopy and fine needle aspiration biopsy. Elsevier 2021-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8113989/ /pubmed/34012773 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01141 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Disseminated cryptococcosis with gastric and thyroid involvement
title Disseminated cryptococcosis with gastric and thyroid involvement
title_full Disseminated cryptococcosis with gastric and thyroid involvement
title_fullStr Disseminated cryptococcosis with gastric and thyroid involvement
title_full_unstemmed Disseminated cryptococcosis with gastric and thyroid involvement
title_short Disseminated cryptococcosis with gastric and thyroid involvement
title_sort disseminated cryptococcosis with gastric and thyroid involvement
topic Case Illustrated
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8113989/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34012773
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01141
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