Journal

Journal of surgical case reports
ISSN: 2042-8812
Titre abrégé: J Surg Case Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101560169

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Sep 2021
Historique:
received: 29 07 2021
accepted: 19 08 2021
entrez: 27 9 2021
pubmed: 28 9 2021
medline: 28 9 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Cerebral mycosis is extremely rare in immunocompetent patients. A 61-year-old male presented with a 3-month history of worsening left-sided headaches and 3-week history of left-sided upper lip paraesthesia. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed an enhancing lesion in the left temporal lobe. Histopathology of this lesion revealed what initially resembled a zygomycete but additional cultures obtained on further surgical debridement revealed the infection to be

Identifiants

pubmed: 34567519
doi: 10.1093/jscr/rjab402
pii: rjab402
pmc: PMC8460270
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

rjab402

Informations de copyright

Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. © The Author(s) 2021.

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Auteurs

Bernard J H Kim (BJH)

Department of Neurosurgery, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.

Joseph Garcia Redmond (J)

Department of Neurosurgery, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.

Annabelle D Donaldson (AD)

Department of Infectious Diseases, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.

A Robert Aspoas (AR)

Department of Neurosurgery, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.

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