Cryptococcus gattii fungemia: report of a case with lung and brain lesions mimicking radiological features of malignancy.
Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo
; 49(4): 263-5, 2007.
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| ID: mdl-17823759
A 64-year-old apparently immunocompetent white man developed lung and brain lesions of disseminated cryptococcosis. The radiologic features mimicked those of lung cancer metastatic to the central nervous system. C. gattii was recovered from cultures of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, brain biopsy, and blood. The same fungus was recovered from pulmonary and brain specimens at autopsy. Serum and cerebrospinal fluid cryptococcal antigen tests were diagnostic in our case and should be included in the diagnostic evaluation of unexplained pulmonary and cerebral lesions. A literature search showed few reports of fungemia by this species of Cryptococcus, contrasting to C. neoformans.
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Fungemia
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Criptococose
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Pneumopatias Fúngicas
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
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En
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Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo
Ano de publicação:
2007
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Article
País de afiliação:
Brasil
País de publicação:
Brasil