Case report: complete lung collapse--an unusual presentation of cryptococcosis.
Cryptococcosis presenting as an intrabronchial mass is not a recognized cause of complete lung collapse. This case report illustrates this extremely rare manifestation of pulmonary cryptococcosis, which mimicked primary pulmonary carcinoma clinically, radiologically and bronchoscopically.
Carter
E A
EA
Department of Radiology, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, Australia.
Henderson
D W
DW
McBride
J
J
Sage
M R
MR
D000368:Aged; D001980:Bronchi / Q000382:microbiology; D001995:Bronchography; D003453:Cryptococcosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003455:Cryptococcus neoformans / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D008172:Lung Diseases, Fungal / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D001261:Pulmonary Atelectasis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed