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. 2017 Jan 19;4(1):ofw276.
doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofw276. eCollection 2017 Winter.

Primary Cutaneous Cryptococcosis: A New Case of This Rare Entity

Cintia Arjona-Aguilera  1 , David Jiménez-Gallo  1 , Cristina Collantes-Rodríguez  1 , Mario Linares-Barrios  1
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Primary Cutaneous Cryptococcosis: A New Case of This Rare Entity

Cintia Arjona-Aguilera et al. Open Forum Infect Dis. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Cryptococcus neoformans; cellullitis; cutaneous cryptococcosis; inmunosupression.

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Figure 1.
(A) Ill-defined erythematous violaceous plaques with areas of ulceration, on the right thigh of an immunosuppressed patient. (B) Dermis and subcutaneous fat tissue heavily colonized by encapsulated yeast cells of varying size, accompanied by chronic granulomatous inflammatory infiltration with occasional giant cells. Hematoxylin and eosin, ×10 (left), ×20 (right). (C) A positive methenamine-silver stain demonstrated the presence of encapsulated yeasts of 1–3 mm, ×60.
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