ArticleWorld journal of clinical cases2022
Isolated cryptococcal osteomyelitis of the ulna in an immunocompetent patient: A case report.
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- Rare case of ulnar cryptococcal osteomyelitis in a 26-year-old immunocompetent patient.Radiology case reports · 2026Article
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- Cryptococcus neoformans tibial osteomyelitis in an immunocompetent host: a case diagnosed by tNGS.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
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- Destructive Cryptococcal Osteomyelitis Mimicking Tuberculous Spondylitis.The American journal of case reports · 2024Article
- Disseminated Cryptococcus neoformans infection involving multiple bones and lung in an immunocompetent patient: a case report.BMC infectious diseases · 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
- Pubis Cryptococcal Osteomyelitis in an Immunocompetent Patient: A Case Report and Recent Literature Review.Infection and drug resistance · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundCryptococcal osteomyelitis is a bone infection caused by cryptococcus. As an opportunistic infection, bone cryptococcosis usually occurs in patients with immunodeficiency diseases or in those undergoing immunosuppressive therapy and often displays characteristics of disseminated disease. Isolated cryptococcal osteomyelitis is extremely unusual in immunocompetent person. The pathogenic fungus often invades vertebrae, femur, tibia, rib, clavicle, pelvis, and humerus, but the ulna is a rare target. CASE SUMMARY: A 79-year-old woman complaining of chronic pain, skin ulceration and a sinus on her right forearm was admitted, and soon after was diagnosed with cryptococcal osteomyelitis in the right ulna. Unexpectedly, she was also found to have apparently normal immunity. After treatment with antifungal therapy combined with surgery debridement, the patient's osteomyelitis healed with a satisfactory outcome.
conclusionAlthough rare, cryptococcal osteomyelitis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of osteolytic lesions even in immunocompetent patients, and good outcomes can be expected if early definitive diagnosis and etiological treatment are established.
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