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  • Title: Riu's stain in the diagnosis of pulmonary cryptococcosis. Introduction of a new diagnostic method.
    Author: Lee CH, Lan RS, Tsai YH, Chiang YC, Wang WJ.
    Journal: Chest; 1988 Mar; 93(3):467-70. PubMed ID: 2449313.
    Abstract:
    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.
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