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- Title
Absceso cerebral por Scedosporium apiospermum. PresentaciÓn de un caso con revisión de la literatura.
- Authors
Gelabert-González, M.; Llovo-Taboada, J.; Reyes-Santías, R.; Arcos-Algaba, A.; Serramito-García, R.; Peñalver-Barral; García-Allut, A.
- Abstract
Scedosporium apiospermum is a fungus found in the soil and in contaminated water and commonly cause cutaneous infections and is a rare cause of central nervous system infection. Invasive infection is usually associated with immunosuppresion. The authors present a 73-year-old woman with chronic renal disease who presented with headache for 2 weeks. Computerized tomography scans revealed a ring-enhancing lesion in left temporal lobe. An urgent craniotomy was performed and the lesion was totally removed. The patient died 5 days later. Scedosporium apiospermum was isolated in the culture of the extirpated lesion. The authors review the previously reported cases of brain abscess for Scedosporium apiospermum.
- Subjects
CENTRAL nervous system infections; TEMPORAL bone; TOMOGRAPHY; SOIL fungi; CRANIOTOMY
- Publication
Neurocirugía, 2010, Vol 21, Issue 2, p125
- ISSN
1130-1473
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1016/S1130-1473(10)70068-3