ArticleAsian spine journal2015
Lumbar Cryptococcal Osteomyelitis Mimicking Metastatic Tumor.
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- Cryptococcal infection of the femur misdiagnosed as a primary bone tumor: A case report and literature review.The Journal of international medical research · 2025Review
- Cryptococcosis in patients with myasthenia gravis: clinical characteristics and management strategy.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025Article
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- Destructive Cryptococcal Osteomyelitis Mimicking Tuberculous Spondylitis.The American journal of case reports · 2024Article
- Isolated Cryptococcal Infection of the Thoracic Spine in an Immunocompetent Patient.Infection and drug resistance · 2024Article
- Cryptococcus Neoformans Osteomyelitis of the Right Ankle Diagnosed by Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing in a HIV-Negative Patient with Tuberculous Lymphadenitis and Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Case Report and Recent Literature Review.Infection and drug resistance · 2024Article
- Cryptococcus neoformans osteomyelitis of the tibia: a case report and review of the literature.Journal of medical case reports · 2023Review
- Isolated cryptococcal osteomyelitis of the sacrum in an immunocompetent patient: a case report and literature review.BMC infectious diseases · 2023Review
- Osteoarticular Mycoses.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2022Review
- Isolated cryptococcal osteomyelitis of the ulna in an immunocompetent patient: A case report.World journal of clinical cases · 2022Article
- Isolated cryptococcosis of a lumbar vertebra in an immunocompetent patient: A case report and literature review.Frontiers in surgery · 2022Article
- Diffuse lesions secondary to sarcoidosis mimicking widespread metastatic breast cancer: A case report.Clinical case reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
Cryptococcus is an encapsulated, yeast-like fungus that rarely causes infection in immunocompetent patients. We present the case report of a 66-year-old female patient with a history of rectal cancer with an isolated lumbar vertebral cryptococcosis proven by biopsy performed during operation. The patient was not an immunocompromised host and did not have any other risk factors except the history of cured rectal cancer. The presumptive diagnosis based on imaging studies was metastatic spine cancer, so operation was performed. However, cryptococcal osteomyelitis was diagnosed in the pathologic examination. This case report emphasizes that we should be aware that lumbar cryptococcosis can be a rare cause of mimicking lesions with metastatic cancer.
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