Concomitant cerebral and breast cryptococcosis.
A patient with a solitary intracranial cryptococcoma of the occipital lobe of the brain and a concomitant granuloma of similar aetiology in the breast is reported. Despite resistance of the causative fungus to 5-fluorocytosine in vitro, the patient responded well to radical excisional surgery and therapy with 5-fluorocytosine.
D000293:Adolescent; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D001941:Breast Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D003453:Cryptococcosis / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006099:Granuloma / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008296:Malaysia