Cryptococcal pleuritis containing a high level of adenosine deaminase in a patient with AIDS: A case report

Respiration

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 153-156

  Yoshino, Yusuke ^a   Kitazawa, Takatoshi ^a   Tatsuno, Keita ^a   Ota, Yasuo ^b   Koike, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adenosine deaminase; Cryptococcus neoformans; Pleural effusion; Pleuritis

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; AMPHOTERICIN B; ETHAMBUTOL; FLUCONAZOLE; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FOLLOW UP; HEPATITIS B; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCUBATION TIME; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MYCOSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; TUBERCULOUS PLEURISY;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURISY;

EID: 71849110487     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000216831     Document Type: Article

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