Cryptococcal osteomyelitis of the scapula and rib in an immunocompetent patient
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Isolated cryptococcal osteomyelitis in an immunocompetent patient.
Cryptococcosis is a rare infection in HIV-negative individuals. While the lungs and the central nervous system are most commonly infected, skeletal cryptococcosis is uncommon and isolated osteomyelitis due to Cryptococcus neoformans is quite rare. To our knowledge, only 47 cases of isolated cryptococcal osteomyelitis have been reported from 1974 to 2005. We report a case of isolated cryptococca...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Mycology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1369-3786,1460-2709
DOI: 10.3109/13693786.2012.670277