Cavitary pulmonary cryptococcosis complicated by aspergilloma.
A roentgenogram of a 31-year-old office worker who had developed pleuritic pain showed multiple abscess cavities in the left lower lobe, and a clinical diagnosis of cryptococcosis was considered because of cryptococci recovered from a sputum smear and a positive indirect fluorescent antibody test. Lobectomy (after unsuccessful amphotericin therapy) proved the presence of a destructive cryptococcosis with Aspergillus proliferating in the cavities.
D000328:Adult; D001228:Aspergillosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000601:surgery; D001232:Aspergillus fumigatus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003453:Cryptococcosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000601:surgery; D003455:Cryptococcus neoformans / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000382:microbiology; D008172:Lung Diseases, Fungal / Q000382:microbiology / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D013183:Sputum / Q000382:microbiology