Disseminated cryptococcosis with gastric and thyroid involvement

Ramandeep Dhillon; Aalam Sohal; Vanessa Wormser; Lin Li

doi:10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01141

Disseminated cryptococcosis with gastric and thyroid involvement

IDCases. 2021 Apr 27:24:e01141. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01141. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Ramandeep Dhillon¹, Aalam Sohal², Vanessa Wormser², Lin Li²

Affiliations

¹ University of California Davis, School of Medicine, Davis, CA, United States.
² Department of Internal Medicine, University of California San Francisco-Fresno, Fresno, CA, United States.

Abstract

This is a case of disseminated cryptococcosis with gastrointestinal and thyroid involvement. This case illustrates that gastrointestinal and thyroid involvement may be an under-recognized phenomenon. Suspicion should be high in an immunocompromised patient with odynophagia and a thyroid nodule and warrants further investigation by endoscopy and fine needle aspiration biopsy.