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Table 1 Case reports on extra-pulmonary and extra-cranial cryptococcal abscess

From: Disseminated cryptococcosis with recurrent multiple abscesses in an immunocompetent patient: a case report and literature review

Case

Presentation

Diagnosis

Management

Pattern

Comorbidities

  

Al-Tawfiq JA et al.

2007 [3]

Vertebral abscess, Lung lesion?a

Axillary lymph nodes TB

Pus culture: Positive

SCLATb: Negative

Surgical excision of vertebral abscess

Fluconazole

Singh R et al.

2010 [4]

Psoas abscess

sternum & vertebral involved

Pulmonary TB

Abortion

Varicella infection

FNACc: Positive

SCLAT: Positive

Amphotericin B

Gaskill T et al.

2010 [5]

Soft tissue abscess,

Lung & Mediastinal lymph nodes involved

Remote history of depression

Biopsy: Positive

SCLAT: Positive

Tissue culture: Positive

Surgical excision of thigh abscess

Fluconazole

Suchitha S et al.

2012 [6]

Soft tissue & cerebral abscess,

Lung involved

Diabetes

FNAC: Positive

Sputum culture: Positive

No surgery

Fluconazole & Amphotericin B

Lenz D et al.

2015 [7]

Subcutaneous abscess

None

Tissue culture: Positive

SCLAT: Negative

Surgical incision without anti-fungal drug

  1. aThe tissue cultures found only Cryptococcus in vertebral abscess and M. tuberculosis in axillary lymph nodes. The patient had no productive cough and thus sputum cultures were not obtained. The pathogen of pulmonary lesion remains unclear
  2. bSCLAT: Serum Cryptococcus Latex Agglutination Test
  3. cFNAC: Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology