• Rev Chilena Infectol · Dec 2006

    Review Case Reports

    [Cryptococcus neoformans arthritis in elderly adult: case report and review].

    • Germán Gil L, Carolina Foster B, Oscar Neira Q, Sergio Palma C, Javier Basualdo A, Carolina Heredia P, Alejandra Fernández V, Chrystal Juliet L, and Juan C Tapia A.
    • Sección de Reumatología, Servicio de Medicina, Hospital del Salvador, Santiago, Chile. germangil2002@yahoo.com.mx
    • Rev Chilena Infectol. 2006 Dec 1; 23 (4): 330-5.

    AbstractCryptococcal infection is not frequent in immunocompetent patients. The most commonly involved sites are the lungs and the central nervous system. Cryptococcal osteomyelitis occurs in 5-10% of patients with disseminated cryptococcosis with few reports of cryptococcal arthritis in elderly adults. We describe the case of a 92-year-old woman with a Cryptococcus neoformans knee joint infection associated to osteomyelitis.

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