Cryptococcosis of thoracic vertebra simulating tuberculosis: Diagnosis by fine-needle aspiration biopsy cytology - A case report

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 385-386

  Jain, Manjula ^a   Sharma, Sunita ^a   Jain, Trilochan Singh ^b  

^a LADY HARDINGE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b ESI HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Cryptococcosis; FNAB cytology; Thoracic vertebra

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CASE REPORT; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONDYLITIS; THORACIC SPINE; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS;

AGED; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIFUNGAL; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; SPINAL DISEASES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0032914203     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0339(199906)20:6<385::AID-DC12>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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