Journal article
Large Solitary Pulmonary Cryptococcoma Mimicking Lung Carcinoma in an Immunocompetent Patient
The Malaysian journal of medical sciences, Vol.25(1), pp.114-118
01/01/2018
DOI: 10.21315/mjms2018.25.1.13
PMCID: PMC5862057
PMID: 29599641
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.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Large Solitary Pulmonary Cryptococcoma Mimicking Lung Carcinoma in an Immunocompetent Patient
- Creators
- Karan Manoj Anandpara - Department of Radiology Seth G S Medical College and KEM Hospital, Acharya Donde Marg, Parel, Mumbai-400 012 India.Yashant Aswani - Department of Radiology Seth G S Medical College and KEM Hospital, Acharya Donde Marg, Parel, Mumbai-400 012 India.Priya Hira - Department of Radiology Seth G S Medical College and KEM Hospital, Acharya Donde Marg, Parel, Mumbai-400 012 India.
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Malaysian journal of medical sciences, Vol.25(1), pp.114-118
- DOI
- 10.21315/mjms2018.25.1.13
- PMID
- 29599641
- PMCID
- PMC5862057
- NLM abbreviation
- Malays J Med Sci
- ISSN
- 1394-195X
- eISSN
- 2180-4303
- Publisher
- Univ Sains Malaysia, Sch Medical Sciences
- Number of pages
- 5
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2018
- Academic Unit
- Radiology
- Record Identifier
- 9984318789402771
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