Disseminated cryptococcosis presenting with generalized lymphadenopathy.

Cryptococcosis is a common opportunistic infection among immunocompromised individuals. Some of the commonly affected sites are respiratory and central nervous system. Lymph node is an unusual site of involvement which could mimic tuberculosis, as seen in our case. We report a 32-year-old male immunocompromised patient presenting with generalized lymphadenopathy who was clinically suspected to have tuberculous lymphadenitis. He was diagnosed to have disseminated cryptococcosis on fine needle aspiration cytology and fungal isolation on culture.

Citation

Kandathil Joseph Philip, Rupinder Kaur, Mohan Sangeetha, Kanwal Masih, Navjot Singh, Anna Mani. Disseminated cryptococcosis presenting with generalized lymphadenopathy. Journal of cytology. 2012 Jul;29(3):200-2

PMID: 23112464

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