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- Cryptococcosis is a fungal disease that commonly affects individuals with AIDS, creating significant diagnostic and treatment challenges in Africa.
- The case report details a 42-year-old HIV-positive female patient who experienced nasal and skin lesions, confirmed through a biopsy.
- Despite receiving treatment with amphotericin B, the patient ultimately died from complications related to neuro meningitis caused by the disease.
Article Abstract
Cryptococcosis is a polymorphous disease occurring especially in the course of the Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). It puts so diagnostic that therapeutical problems in African countries. The objective of this observation is to report a case of nasal localization with a cutaneous cryptococcosis. It has been confirmed by the histopathologic study of the cutaneous biopsy. The patient was 42 year-old female, HIV positive, bachelor and hospitalised for epistaxis with cutaneous tumefaction and lesions of the nose. The rate of CD4 was 98/mm3. The treatment was based on amphotericine B. Patient died from neuro meningitis extension of the disease.
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