CASE REPORT
CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS AND PULMONARY CRYPTOCOCCOSIS IN A NON-HIV INFECTED PATIENT
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K.S. Hegde Medical Academy, Professor of Neurology, Karnataka,India
 
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K.S. Hegde Medical Academy, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Karnataka, India.
 
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Kasturba Medical College, Professor of Microbiology
 
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A.J. Shetty Medical College, Associate Professor of Radiology
 
 
Online publication date: 2006-04-15
 
 
Publication date: 2006-04-15
 
 
Corresponding author
Amit Agrawal   

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, K.S. Hegde Medical Academy, Nityananda Nagar, Mangalore-575108, Karnataka,India.
 
 
Eur J Gen Med 2006;3(2):80-82
 
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Pulmonary cryptococcosis associated with cryptococcal meningitis in non-HIV infected patients is an uncommon finding. We report a case of polymyositis who developed pulmonary cryptococcosis and cryptococcal meningitis while she was on long term oral steroids, treated successfully.
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