Mycobacterium Genavense Granuloma Mimicking a Brain Tumor: A Case Report

Mycobacterium genavense (M. genavense) is a rare, non-tuberculous organism that commonly leads to gastrointestinal infections in immunocompromised patients. Only two cases of intracranial M. genavense infection have been reported to date. We describe a third case of M. genavense granuloma mimicking...

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Autores principales: Toussi, Atrin, Goodarzi, Amir, Kulubya, Edwin, Lee, Darrin J, Waldau, Ben
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Neurosurgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5630459/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29018644
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1547
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author Toussi, Atrin
Goodarzi, Amir
Kulubya, Edwin
Lee, Darrin J
Waldau, Ben
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description Mycobacterium genavense (M. genavense) is a rare, non-tuberculous organism that commonly leads to gastrointestinal infections in immunocompromised patients. Only two cases of intracranial M. genavense infection have been reported to date. We describe a third case of M. genavense granuloma mimicking a right parietal intracranial mass, and review the literature on this exceedingly rare pathology.
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spelling pubmed-56304592017-10-10 Mycobacterium Genavense Granuloma Mimicking a Brain Tumor: A Case Report Toussi, Atrin Goodarzi, Amir Kulubya, Edwin Lee, Darrin J Waldau, Ben Cureus Neurosurgery Mycobacterium genavense (M. genavense) is a rare, non-tuberculous organism that commonly leads to gastrointestinal infections in immunocompromised patients. Only two cases of intracranial M. genavense infection have been reported to date. We describe a third case of M. genavense granuloma mimicking a right parietal intracranial mass, and review the literature on this exceedingly rare pathology. Cureus 2017-08-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5630459/ /pubmed/29018644 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1547 Text en Copyright © 2017, Toussi et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Mycobacterium Genavense Granuloma Mimicking a Brain Tumor: A Case Report
title Mycobacterium Genavense Granuloma Mimicking a Brain Tumor: A Case Report
title_full Mycobacterium Genavense Granuloma Mimicking a Brain Tumor: A Case Report
title_fullStr Mycobacterium Genavense Granuloma Mimicking a Brain Tumor: A Case Report
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title_short Mycobacterium Genavense Granuloma Mimicking a Brain Tumor: A Case Report
title_sort mycobacterium genavense granuloma mimicking a brain tumor: a case report
topic Neurosurgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5630459/
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