Pulmonary cryptococcoma mimicking pulmonary malignancy in an immunocompetent adult: A case report

Ethiopian Medical Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 275-278

  Kebcde, Tesfaye ^a   Reda, Nigusic ^b  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b Armed Forces General Teaching Hospital   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LUNG; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84872240227     PISSN: 00141755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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