Lee C H, Lan R S, Tsai Y H, Chiang Y C, Wang W J
Department of Chest Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.
Chest. 1988 Mar;93(3):467-70. doi: 10.1378/chest.93.3.467.
Pulmonary cryptococcosis is thought to be a rare disease. Clinically, it presents no characteristic symptoms, signs or chest x-ray film findings. Most of the reported cases of pulmonary cryptococcosis were not diagnosed either antemortem or before surgical intervention. A simple diagnostic method, Riu's stain, can be used routinely in bronchoscopic brushing smears, or for needle aspiration cytologic studies, making pulmonary cryptococcosis easy to diagnose.
肺隐球菌病被认为是一种罕见疾病。临床上，它没有特征性的症状、体征或胸部X光片表现。大多数已报道的肺隐球菌病病例在生前或手术干预前均未被诊断出来。一种简单的诊断方法，即瑞氏染色，可常规用于支气管刷检涂片或针吸细胞学检查，使肺隐球菌病易于诊断。
