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(Chest. 1971;59:454-456.)
© 1971 American College of Chest Physicians

Pulmonary Cryptococcosis—A Case Diagnostically Confirmed by Transbronchial Brush Biopsy

Edward L. Soll M.D.1 and Ralph B. Bergeron M.D.1

1 Department of Radiology, Ochsner Foundation Hospital, New Orleans

This case demonstrates the value of transbronchial brush biopsy in the differential diagnosis of pulmonary lesions. Suspected pulmonary cryptococcosis in a 60-year-old woman was confirmed by using a technique of transbronchial brush biopsy. Examination of an immediate India ink preparation demonstrated the organism, Cryptococcus neoformans.






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