Two Cases of Cutaneous Cryptoccosis Mimicking Cellulitis / 대한의진균학회지
Korean Journal of Medical Mycology
;
: 190-194, 1998.
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in Korean
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| ID: wpr-94313
ABSTRACT
Crytococcus neofomans is an encapsulated budding yeast with well-defined ecological biotopes and the second most common nose of the fungal infection in immunocompromised patients. It is 18re for a cryptoccosis infection to be localized only to the skin. We report two cases of cryptococcosis mimicking cellulitis. The frist case was suspected as primary cutaneous cyptococcosis in the 57-year-old female SIE patient who had been treated with prednisolone 60 mg/day for 1 month. Erythematous swollen patch developed on the left thigh and subsided spontaneously without relation to the course of 519 after 2 weeks of onset. The second case developed in the 45-year-old female patient with adrenal cancer. Erythematous patches developed on the medial sides of both thighs. The lesions were resistant to the combination therapy of amphotericin B 0-7 mg/kg/day and 5-fluorocytosine 100 mg/kg/day and the patient died after 1 month of treatment.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Skin
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Thigh
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Prednisolone
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Cellulitis
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Amphotericin B
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Nose
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Immunocompromised Host
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Adrenal Gland Neoplasms
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Cryptococcosis
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Saccharomycetales
Limits:
Female
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Humans
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Korean Journal of Medical Mycology
Year:
1998
Type:
Article
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