Scedosporium apiospermum as a rare cause of central skull base osteomyelitis

We report a case of Scedosporium apiospermum mold causing ear infection, central skull base osteomyelitis and finally, occlusion of carotid artery in a 48-year-old diabetic man. The exact diagnosis was established and the severity of the disease understood several months after the onset of symptoms....

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Autores principales: Jalava-Karvinen, Päivi, Nyman, Mikko, Gardberg, Maria, Harju, Inka, Hohenthal, Ulla, Oksi, Jarmo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4834721/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27134821
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2016.04.002
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author Jalava-Karvinen, Päivi
Nyman, Mikko
Gardberg, Maria
Harju, Inka
Hohenthal, Ulla
Oksi, Jarmo
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description We report a case of Scedosporium apiospermum mold causing ear infection, central skull base osteomyelitis and finally, occlusion of carotid artery in a 48-year-old diabetic man. The exact diagnosis was established and the severity of the disease understood several months after the onset of symptoms. Despite of appropriate antifungal therapy, and repeated surgical and otological procedures, the infection progressed to fatal cerebral infarction.
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spelling pubmed-48347212016-04-29 Scedosporium apiospermum as a rare cause of central skull base osteomyelitis Jalava-Karvinen, Päivi Nyman, Mikko Gardberg, Maria Harju, Inka Hohenthal, Ulla Oksi, Jarmo Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report We report a case of Scedosporium apiospermum mold causing ear infection, central skull base osteomyelitis and finally, occlusion of carotid artery in a 48-year-old diabetic man. The exact diagnosis was established and the severity of the disease understood several months after the onset of symptoms. Despite of appropriate antifungal therapy, and repeated surgical and otological procedures, the infection progressed to fatal cerebral infarction. Elsevier 2016-04-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4834721/ /pubmed/27134821 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2016.04.002 Text en © 2016 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Scedosporium apiospermum as a rare cause of central skull base osteomyelitis
title Scedosporium apiospermum as a rare cause of central skull base osteomyelitis
title_full Scedosporium apiospermum as a rare cause of central skull base osteomyelitis
title_fullStr Scedosporium apiospermum as a rare cause of central skull base osteomyelitis
title_full_unstemmed Scedosporium apiospermum as a rare cause of central skull base osteomyelitis
title_short Scedosporium apiospermum as a rare cause of central skull base osteomyelitis
title_sort scedosporium apiospermum as a rare cause of central skull base osteomyelitis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4834721/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27134821
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2016.04.002
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