We read with great interest the paper of Sillero-Filho et al., entitled "Cerebellar cryptococcoma simulating metastatic neoplasm", published recently in Arquivos de Neuropsiquiatria 1 . The authors described a 46 year-old male patient with left cerebellar hemispheric tumor-like lesion who had an initial diagnostic hypothesis of cerebellar metastatic lesion or even piogenic cerebellar abscess. After the surgical removal of the mass lesion, pathological examination revelead a cerebellar cryptococcoma. The authors emphasized that this was the first case of a solid cryptococcal mass lesion reported in Brazil
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