title: [Primary cutaneous cryptococcosis : Pigeons can carry more than letters …!]
abstract: In the event of non-specific epidermal lesions, the importance of a comprehensive anamnesis becomes especially apparent. In the following, we report on a patient case in which only a focused anamnesis was able to bring light into the darkness of numerous differential diagnoses - and to produce the diagnosis of a rare but in this collective common illness: primary cutaneous cryptococcosis.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Dermatologie, Allergologie und Venerologie, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig Holstein, Campus Kiel, Schittenhelmstr. 7, 24105, Kiel, Deutschland. sgreven@dermatology.uni-kiel.de.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Greven
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Dermatologie, Allergologie und Venerologie, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig Holstein, Campus Kiel, Schittenhelmstr. 7, 24105, Kiel, Deutschland.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Brasch
authors.affiliation: Dermatohistologisches und Pathologisches Einsendelabor am Tibarg, Hamburg, Deutschland.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Reusch
authors.affiliation: Dermatohistologisches und Pathologisches Einsendelabor am Tibarg, Hamburg, Deutschland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Reusch
authors.affiliation: Dermatohistologisches und Pathologisches Einsendelabor am Tibarg, Hamburg, Deutschland.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Mielke
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D010856:Columbidae / Q000382:microbiology*; D003453:Cryptococcosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology*; D003881:Dermatomycoses / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008487:Medical History Taking / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Lesions; Medical history taking; Mycosis; Plaques; Zoonosis