Cryptococcal pleural effusion in a patient with chronic renal failure receiving long-term corticosteroid therapy for rheumatoid arthritis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 534-537

  Fukuchi, Masahiko ^a   Mizushima, Yutaka ^a,b   Hori, Tooru ^a   Kobayashi, Masashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antigen test; Compromised host; Cryptococcus neoformans (CN); Secondary amyloidosis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FEMALE; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031903313     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.37.534     Document Type: Article

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