Cryptococcal pleural effusion in acquired immune deficiency syndrome—Diagnosis by closed pleural biopsy (original) (raw)

Respiratory Medicine Extra, 2006

Abstract

Pulmonary cryptococcosis is usually diagnosed by detection of cryptococcal antigen or by culture from the pleural fluid or bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BAL), or by histopathology of the lung biopsy specimen. Diagnosis of cryptococcal pleural effusion by closed pleural biopsy (CPB) has been reported only once [Katz AS, Niesenbaum L, Mass B. Pleural effusion as the initial manifestation of disseminated cryptococcosis in acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Diagnosis by pleural biopsy. Chest 1989; 96: 440–1]. We report ...

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