Cryptococcosis with bird's eye manifestation: A case report

  • H S Suhas
  • Ketaki Utpat
  • Unnati Desai
  • Manoj Vedpathak
  • Jyotsna M Joshi
Publication date
January 2018
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
ISSN
0970-2113
Journal
issn:0974-598X

Abstract

Cryptococcosis is a menacing opportunistic infection most commonly affecting immunocompromised individuals. Its occurrence in immunocompetant individuals is uncustomary. Disseminated cryptococcosis is subtile in immunocompetent individuals. Cryptococcosis presenting with myriad of symptoms with involvement of lung, meninges, hematological system is rare. We present to you a unique case of disseminated cryptococcosis presenting as bilateral pulmonary nodular opacities with peripheral eosinophilia and meningitis along with a narration of the enthralling diagnostic process

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