Cerebral blastomycosis: a case report.
Blastomycosis is a chronic systemic fungal infection characteristically affecting the skin and lungs. Involvement of the central nervous system (CNS) is unusual, with cases generally presenting with meningitis, and rarely as intracranial mass lesion and solitary or multiple abscesses. Only two cases of intracranial extra-axial blastomycosis have been reported from India, and we report the third case, which presented as meningioma in a 23-year old female.
Chander
Bal
B
Department of Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi.
Deb
Prabal
P
Sarkar
Chitra
C
Garg
Ajay
A
Mehta
Vir Singh
VS
Sharma
Mehar Chand
MC
D000328:Adult; D000666:Amphotericin B / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000935:Antifungal Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001759:Blastomycosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D001921:Brain / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology*; D020314:Central Nervous System Fungal Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D003399:Craniotomy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006257:Head / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008579:Meningioma / Q000175:diagnosis; D011859:Radiography
D000935:Antifungal Agents; D000666:Amphotericin B