title: Cryptococcal meningitis with accompanying recurrent cerebellitis in an immunocompetent patient.
abstract: This report describes a 46-year-old individual with normal immune status and a clinical course marked by headache and nausea-vomiting. He was diagnosed as having cryptococcal meningitis (CM) accompanying with cerebellitis. The interesting element was the observation of recurrent cerebellitis, never before reported in the literature for CM. He was successfully treated with antifungal and steroid therapy and discharged on day 330.
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Karadeniz Technical University, School of Medicine, Trabzon 61080, Turkey.
authors.forename: Selçuk
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kaya
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Karadeniz Technical University, School of Medicine, Trabzon 61080, Turkey.
authors.forename: Iftihar
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Köksal
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology, Karadeniz Technical University, School of Medicine, Trabzon 61080, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ilknur
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Tosun
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Karadeniz Technical University, School of Medicine, Trabzon 61080, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sarı
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Karadeniz Technical University, School of Medicine, Trabzon 61080, Turkey.
authors.forename: Zekeriya
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Alioğlu
keywords: Cryptococcal meningitis; Immunocompetent; Recurrent cerebellitis