PRIMARY UNUSUAL CUTANEOUS CRYPTOCOCCOSIS IN AN HIV FORMER DRUG-ABUSERPATIENT

Authors
GATTI M DISILVERIO A CESPA M MOSCA M
Citation
M. Gatti et al., PRIMARY UNUSUAL CUTANEOUS CRYPTOCOCCOSIS IN AN HIV FORMER DRUG-ABUSERPATIENT, Mycoses, 40(3-4), 1997, pp. 101-102
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Dermatology & Venereal Diseases",Mycology
Journal title
Mycoses → ACNP
ISSN journal
09337407
Volume
40
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
101 - 102
Database
ISI
SICI code
0933-7407(1997)40:3-4<101:PUCCIA>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
We describe an HIV-positive patient suffering from cutaneous cryptococ cosis who was a former intravenous drug abuser and who presented a nod ulo-ulcerated lesion on the back of his left hand. This was caused 4 m onths previously when the patient was injured by a pigeon nesting in a n abandoned house. After fluconazole treatment for 4 months, no other visceral infections were recorded 18 months after complete healing of the lesion.