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KMID : 0378619960130010192
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Baptist Hospital Medical Journal
1996 Volume.13 No. 1 p.192 ~ p.196
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A Case of Pulmonary Cryptococcosis in Healthy Person
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류수현
임종섭/유대성/신원혁/류인열/윤성준/이지현/황순철
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Abstract
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Cryptococcosis is a systemic fungal infection caused by Cryptococcus neoformans. This mycosis is best known for meningeal involvement, but this disease occasionally can be limited to the lungs. The usual portal of entry is respiratory tract. The
recently rising incidence of canbe limited to disease can be attributable to wide use of steroid, immunosuppressive agents and advent of AIDS, We experienced one case of pulmonary crptococcosis in healthy person, who was admitted to the our
hospital
because of cough. Crypococcus neoformans was isolated in the sputum, and lung tissue obtained by CT guide needle aspiration biopsy. Clinical improvement was noted after 6weeks of medical therapy with fluconazole.
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