concurrent presence of cryptococcal meningitis and neoplastic meningitis in a recipient of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: a case report

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kouros aghazadeh infectious diseases and tropical medicine research center, shahid behshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran; infectious diseases and tropical medicine research center, shahid behshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran

seyed alireza nadji associate professor of medical virology, vrc, nritld, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran

shervin shokouhi department of infectious disease, loghman hospital, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran

payam tabarsi clinical tb and epidemiology research center, nritld, tehran, ir iran

چکیده

conclusions chronic meningitis in immunocompromised hosts can be due to more than one pathologic etiology and we should do all diagnostic evaluation to rule out all possible differential diagnosis. introduction cryptococcal meningitis is a rare disorder that is caused by cryptococcus neoformans in immunocompromised host. case presentation the case was a 64-year-old man with a history of stem cell transplant for acute leukemia, who presented chronic meningitis caused by cryptococcus neoformans and concurrent neoplastic meningitis with presence of malignant cells only in his cerebrospinal fluid (csf).

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