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KMID : 0351219930250030259
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Korean Journal of Infectious Diseases
1993 Volume.25 No. 3 p.259 ~ p.264
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A Case of Primary Pulmonary Cryptococcosis Misidiagnosed as Lung Cancer
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Abstract
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Cryptococcosis is a systemic mycosis, which has been increasingly recognized as a opportunistic fungal infection since the onset of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome(AIDS) epidemic in the early 1980s. The pattern of pulmonary cryptococcosis is
highly
variable.
The case we reported here was a 72 year-old Korean male who had a history of puhmonary tuberculosis. On routine chest X-ray, patient had a mass on the right lower lobe. The chest CT revealed that heterogenous low density mass with distal distal
pnemonia
and probably right hilar lymphadenopathy. We suspected that this case was a lung cancer.
Operation was done and microscopic examination showed numerous granulomatous lesions. We found several intracytoplasmic organisms in this section.
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