Pulmonary cryptococcosis due to a capsule-deficient strain confused with metastatic lung cancer

Mycopathologia

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 65-68

  Kimura, Masatomo ^a   Kaufman, Leo ^b   Maekura, Shunji ^a   Teramura, Kazuhiro ^a   Satou, Takao ^a   Hashimoto, Shigeo ^a  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Capsule deficient; Cryptococcus neoformans; Immunofluorescence study; Lung; Metastatic cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG MYCOSIS; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

EID: 0031399256     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006890413901     Document Type: Article

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