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Cryptococcal Osteomyelitis

1982; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 21; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/000992288202100208

1938-2707

Margaret R. Hammerschlag, Javier Domingo, Jack O. Haller, David M. Papayanopulos,

Antifungal resistance and susceptibility

A case is reported of isolated cryptococcal osteomyelitis in an 11-year-old girl without any detectable underlying disease. The patient was successfully treated for six weeks with intravenous amphotericin B and oral 5-flucytosine. There is only one other case of cryptococcal osteomyelitis reported in the English medical literature in a child. Over 50 per cent of individuals with this infection will have an underlying condition which may have predisposed them to acquiring this disease.