Cerebral Epidural Abscess Secondary to Blastomyces Masquerading as an Epidermoid Tumor

There have been infrequent reports of isolated central nervous system blastomycosis. We report a case of intracranial epidural abscess secondary to Blastomyces dermatitidis in a patient residing in Rhode Island with a history of remote travel to an endemic area. The clinical, radiographic, and patho...

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Autores principales: Doberstein, Cody, Noor, Abass, Choi, David, Smith, Jacob, Groh, Darren, Mermel, Leonard, Doberstein, Curtis
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5508773/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28721351
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx112
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author Doberstein, Cody
Noor, Abass
Choi, David
Smith, Jacob
Groh, Darren
Mermel, Leonard
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description There have been infrequent reports of isolated central nervous system blastomycosis. We report a case of intracranial epidural abscess secondary to Blastomyces dermatitidis in a patient residing in Rhode Island with a history of remote travel to an endemic area. The clinical, radiographic, and pathologic features of this unique case are reviewed.
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spelling pubmed-55087732017-07-18 Cerebral Epidural Abscess Secondary to Blastomyces Masquerading as an Epidermoid Tumor Doberstein, Cody Noor, Abass Choi, David Smith, Jacob Groh, Darren Mermel, Leonard Doberstein, Curtis Open Forum Infect Dis ID Image There have been infrequent reports of isolated central nervous system blastomycosis. We report a case of intracranial epidural abscess secondary to Blastomyces dermatitidis in a patient residing in Rhode Island with a history of remote travel to an endemic area. The clinical, radiographic, and pathologic features of this unique case are reviewed. Oxford University Press 2017-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5508773/ /pubmed/28721351 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx112 Text en © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5508773/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx112
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