Successful medical treatment of a spinal histoplasmoma.
A woman with previously treated disseminated histoplasmosis was admitted with progressive paraparesis. Magnetic resonance imaging showed multifocal cerebritis and spinal histoplasmoma. She recovered following a second treatment with amphotericin B. This is the fourth reported patient with intramedullary spinal histoplasmoma, and the first demonstrating successful treatment of the lesion with medical therapy alone.
Kelly
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Department of Neurology University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington 40536.
Smith
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CD
McQuillen
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D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006660:Histoplasmosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*