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Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences
School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia
ISSN: 1394-195X
Vol. 25, No. 1, 2018, pp. 114-118
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Bioline Code: mj18013
Full paper language: English
Document type: Case Report
Document available free of charge
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Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2018, pp. 114-118
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Large Solitary Pulmonary Cryptococcoma Mimicking Lung Carcinoma in an Immunocompetent Patient
Anandpara, Karan Manoj; Aswani, Yashant & Hira, Priya
Abstract
Cryptococcosis is a life-threatening mycosis typically seen in immunocompromised
patients. Pulmonary cryptococcosis generally presents as multiple or solitary nodular opacities.
Cryptococcal infection presenting as a destructing cavernoma (cryptococcoma) without diffuse
infiltration of the lung is an extremely rare presentation, even in immunocompromised patients.
This report presents a healthy, HIV negative, immunocompetent patient who presented with a
large solitary lung mass provisionally diagnosed as a lung malignancy on radiological imaging
that proved to be a large cryptococcoma after biopsy. The patient was treated with liposomal
Amphotericin B and fluconazole, and the lesion showed regression on serial imaging. This
case report thus highlights an unconventional presentation of pulmonary cryptococcosis in an
immunocompetent individual.
Keywords
cryptococcosis; immunocompetent; pulmonary; radiology
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