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[Disseminated cryptococcosis with extensive cutaneous involvement in AIDS].
Medizinische Klinik 1997 June 16
BACKGROUND: Diagnosis of an ulceratively decaying indolent papule in the skin of an AIDS patient.
CASE REPORT: In a 36-year-old HIV-positive man with a CD4 lymphocyte count of 60/microliters, a diagnosis of disseminated cryptococcosis was established based on a biopsy of an ulceratively decaying indolent papule in the skin of the left side gluteal region. In additional papulopustular skin lesions of neck, upper arm, upper thigh, and rima ani, Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans was detected by specific culture. The Cryptococcus neoformans antigen titre in serum was 1:160. The extensive cryptococcal skin involvement was accompanied by symptoms of meningeal cryptococcosis like hearing at an abnormal sound volume, a sensation of high pressure in the head and a change of behaviour, but absence of cephalgia and stiff neck. Attention is drawn to the importance of biopsy for the differential diagnosis of the skin lesions and to the significance of a specific cultural detection of Cryptococcus neoformans in view of the therapy and epidemiology of this mycosis. Under a combination therapy, consisting of amphotericin B, flucytosine and fluconazole, a healing of the skin lesions and disappearance of the neurological symptoms followed by negative cultural and serological tests were seen. Specific comments on the epidemiology of cryptococcosis in AIDS are made.
CONCLUSION: In case of doubt, papulopustular skin lesions of HIV-positive patients should be biopsied. Cryptococcosis should also be considered.
CASE REPORT: In a 36-year-old HIV-positive man with a CD4 lymphocyte count of 60/microliters, a diagnosis of disseminated cryptococcosis was established based on a biopsy of an ulceratively decaying indolent papule in the skin of the left side gluteal region. In additional papulopustular skin lesions of neck, upper arm, upper thigh, and rima ani, Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans was detected by specific culture. The Cryptococcus neoformans antigen titre in serum was 1:160. The extensive cryptococcal skin involvement was accompanied by symptoms of meningeal cryptococcosis like hearing at an abnormal sound volume, a sensation of high pressure in the head and a change of behaviour, but absence of cephalgia and stiff neck. Attention is drawn to the importance of biopsy for the differential diagnosis of the skin lesions and to the significance of a specific cultural detection of Cryptococcus neoformans in view of the therapy and epidemiology of this mycosis. Under a combination therapy, consisting of amphotericin B, flucytosine and fluconazole, a healing of the skin lesions and disappearance of the neurological symptoms followed by negative cultural and serological tests were seen. Specific comments on the epidemiology of cryptococcosis in AIDS are made.
CONCLUSION: In case of doubt, papulopustular skin lesions of HIV-positive patients should be biopsied. Cryptococcosis should also be considered.
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