Ventricular visualization on brain scan with intracranial hemorrhage in disseminated phycomycosis.
Infections with fungi of the class Phycomycetes result in distinctive tissue changes characterized by growth of hyphae in and around blood vessels, causing necrosis and hemorrhagic infarction of tissue. A brain scan on a patient with a phycomycotic intracranial aneurysm demonstrated ventricular visualization at a time when there was clinical and autopsy evidence of rupture of the aneurysm.
D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005658:Fungi; D006801:Humans; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000150:complications; D009181:Mycoses / Q000150:complications*; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D013667:Technetium
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