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Atypical craniocerebral eumycetoma: A case report and review of literature

Craniocerebral eumycetomas are rare. They usually present with scalp swelling and discharging sinuses. Radiologically, they present as space-occupying lesions. We report a case of eumycetoma involving the left parietal cortex, bone, and subcutaneous tissue in a young male, farm laborer, who presente...

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Autores principales: Rao, Kommu Venkateswara, Praveen, Ankathi, Megha, Santhavir, Sundaram, Challa, Purohith, Anirudh Kumar
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4352644/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25767591
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1793-5482.151524
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author Rao, Kommu Venkateswara
Praveen, Ankathi
Megha, Santhavir
Sundaram, Challa
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description Craniocerebral eumycetomas are rare. They usually present with scalp swelling and discharging sinuses. Radiologically, they present as space-occupying lesions. We report a case of eumycetoma involving the left parietal cortex, bone, and subcutaneous tissue in a young male, farm laborer, who presented with seizures and blurring of vision. Imaging showed a dural based lesions enhancing moderately on contrast. To the best of our knowledge and belief, ours is the first published case in the English Literature where a eumycetoma has presented as a mass lesion without discharging sinuses. It is imperative to keep such atypical features of an infective etiology in mind because they may be one of differentials of “dural” based lesions where only a biopsy may suffice in the absence of significant mass effect to prove the diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-43526442015-03-12 Atypical craniocerebral eumycetoma: A case report and review of literature Rao, Kommu Venkateswara Praveen, Ankathi Megha, Santhavir Sundaram, Challa Purohith, Anirudh Kumar Asian J Neurosurg Case Report Craniocerebral eumycetomas are rare. They usually present with scalp swelling and discharging sinuses. Radiologically, they present as space-occupying lesions. We report a case of eumycetoma involving the left parietal cortex, bone, and subcutaneous tissue in a young male, farm laborer, who presented with seizures and blurring of vision. Imaging showed a dural based lesions enhancing moderately on contrast. To the best of our knowledge and belief, ours is the first published case in the English Literature where a eumycetoma has presented as a mass lesion without discharging sinuses. It is imperative to keep such atypical features of an infective etiology in mind because they may be one of differentials of “dural” based lesions where only a biopsy may suffice in the absence of significant mass effect to prove the diagnosis. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4352644/ /pubmed/25767591 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1793-5482.151524 Text en Copyright: © Asian Journal of Neurosurgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Atypical craniocerebral eumycetoma: A case report and review of literature
title_full Atypical craniocerebral eumycetoma: A case report and review of literature
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title_short Atypical craniocerebral eumycetoma: A case report and review of literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4352644/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25767591
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1793-5482.151524
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