Table 4.
Data of the six cases with negative serum CrAg test
Age (years) | Sex | Underlying diseasea | Symptomb | Imaging
|
Histopathology | Culture | Day of culture | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Size (mm) | Location | ||||||||
| |||||||||
63 | M | No | Dry cough | Nodule, enlargement of mediastinal lymph node | 15×13 | Multiple | Chronic inflammation | Cryptococcus neoformans | 6 |
42 | M | Hypertension | No | Nodule | 11×9 | Single | Granuloma | N/A | N/A |
43 | F | Post-thyroid cancer surgery | No | Nodule | 15×10 | Single | Granuloma | Negative | N/A |
18 | M | No | Chest pain | Nodule | 18×22 | Single | Chronic inflammation | C. neoformans | 6 |
57 | F | No | No | Consolidation, enlargement of mediastinal lymph node | 16×23 | Single | Chronic inflammation | C. neoformans | 11 |
50 | M | B-type hepatitis | No | Nodule | 11×7 | Single | Chronic inflammation | C. neoformans | 15 |
Notes:
“No” indicates no underlying disease.
“No” indicates abnormal CT findings after routine physical examination.
Abbreviations: CrAg, cryptococcal capsular polysaccharide antigen; CT, computed tomography; F, female; M, male; N/A, not available.