title: Looks like a stroke, acts like a stroke, but it's more than a stroke: a case of cerebral mucormycosis.
abstract: Mucormycosis is a fungus that exhibits angiocentric growth and can cause a thrombotic arteritis. Infection with this organism is uncommon and cerebral involvement is most often secondary to direct invasion through the paranasal sinuses. Here, we present a case of mucormycosis with cerebral involvement without sinus disease, which resulted in ischemic stroke with rapid progression resulting in death.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania. Electronic address: dermak1@gmail.com.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ermak
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
authors.forename: Sangam
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kanekar
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
authors.forename: Charles S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Specht
authors.affiliation: Department of Critical Care Medicine, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wojnar
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
authors.forename: Max
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lowden
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002423:Cause of Death; D020314:Central Nervous System Fungal Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009091:Mucormycosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality; D020521:Stroke / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality*; D020293:Vasculitis, Central Nervous System / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000401:mortality
keywords: Mucormycosis; cerebral; fungus; infection; ischemia; stroke