A ten-year-old boy with a pulmonary nodule secondary to Cryptococcus neoformans: Case report and review of the literature

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1089-1093

  Sweeney, Daniel A ^a   Caserta, Mary T ^a,b   Korones, David N ^a,b   Casadevall, Arturo ^a   Goldman, David L ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptococcus neoformans; Lung nodule

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; FLUCONAZOLE; FUNGUS ANTIGEN;

BONE TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG NODULE; MALE; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BONE NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HISTIOCYTOMA, BENIGN FIBROUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0347381034     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.inf.0000101916.33855.06     Document Type: Review

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