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Cryptococcal pleural effusion in an HTLV-I carrier with Waldenstroem's macroglobulinemia
Acta Medica Okayama
|February 1, 1992
Abstract:
A 70-year-old woman with Waldenstroem's macroglobulinemia developed bilateral pleural effusions due to Cryptococcus neoformans. She was found to be a carrier of HTLV-I. It is speculated that the opportunistic infection occurred as the result of an impaired cellular immunity secondary to HTLV-I infection.