A Unique Case of Intracranial Mucormycosis Following an Assault.
Intracranial mucormycosis is a very unusual presentation of an infection after a depressed skull fracture due to an assault. Only sporadic cases have been reported in the literature previously. A 30-year-old male with a traumatic brain injury following an assault, status-post debridement and elevation of a depressed skull fracture, was discharged home several weeks postoperatively. A CT scan of the head with contrast was obtained due to mental status changes and revealed an enhancing ring-shaped lesion in the right frontal lobe consistent with a brain abscess. The patient was taken to the operating room for image-guided excisional biopsy of the lesion, with pathology revealing mucormycosis.
Radiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine.
Fadilah S
FS
Hussain
Department of Neurosurgery, Loma Linda University Medical Center.
Namath S
NS
Hussain
mucormycosis; traumatic brain injury (tbi)
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