Cholecystitis as the initial manifestation of disseminated cryptococcosis [1]

AIDS

Volumn 21, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 2111-2112

  Singh, Cynthia Sudar ^a   Rahman, Mohammad ^a   Jamil, Syed ^a   Sawhney, Harinder ^a   Vernaleo, John ^a   Thelmo, William ^a  

^a WYCKOFF HEIGHTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANOREXIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER BIOPSY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LETTER; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE SECTION;

AGED; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; CHOLECYSTITIS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FEMALE; HUMANS;

EID: 34648831473     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e32801424e3     Document Type: Letter

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