Vascular pythiosis of carotid artery with meningitis and cerebral septic emboli: A case report and literature review

Vascular Pythiosis caused by Pythium insiodiosum rarely involves carotid artery. A case of concealed ruptured pseudoaneurysm of the carotid artery with neck abscesses, and cerebral septic emboli is described. Patient presented with large pulsatile neck mass that failed to response to surgery, antifu...

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Autores principales: Chitasombat, Maria Nina, Petchkum, Porkaew, Horsirimanont, Suthas, Sornmayura, Pattana, Chindamporn, Ariya, Krajaejun, Theerapong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6022254/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30013898
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.05.003
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author Chitasombat, Maria Nina
Petchkum, Porkaew
Horsirimanont, Suthas
Sornmayura, Pattana
Chindamporn, Ariya
Krajaejun, Theerapong
author_facet Chitasombat, Maria Nina
Petchkum, Porkaew
Horsirimanont, Suthas
Sornmayura, Pattana
Chindamporn, Ariya
Krajaejun, Theerapong
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description Vascular Pythiosis caused by Pythium insiodiosum rarely involves carotid artery. A case of concealed ruptured pseudoaneurysm of the carotid artery with neck abscesses, and cerebral septic emboli is described. Patient presented with large pulsatile neck mass that failed to response to surgery, antifungals and immunotherapeutic vaccine. Residual unresectable disease leads to death in the patient. Pythiosis should be considered as a differential diagnosis of head and neck infection.
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spelling pubmed-60222542018-07-16 Vascular pythiosis of carotid artery with meningitis and cerebral septic emboli: A case report and literature review Chitasombat, Maria Nina Petchkum, Porkaew Horsirimanont, Suthas Sornmayura, Pattana Chindamporn, Ariya Krajaejun, Theerapong Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report Vascular Pythiosis caused by Pythium insiodiosum rarely involves carotid artery. A case of concealed ruptured pseudoaneurysm of the carotid artery with neck abscesses, and cerebral septic emboli is described. Patient presented with large pulsatile neck mass that failed to response to surgery, antifungals and immunotherapeutic vaccine. Residual unresectable disease leads to death in the patient. Pythiosis should be considered as a differential diagnosis of head and neck infection. Elsevier 2018-05-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6022254/ /pubmed/30013898 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.05.003 Text en © 2018 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
spellingShingle Case Report
Chitasombat, Maria Nina
Petchkum, Porkaew
Horsirimanont, Suthas
Sornmayura, Pattana
Chindamporn, Ariya
Krajaejun, Theerapong
Vascular pythiosis of carotid artery with meningitis and cerebral septic emboli: A case report and literature review
title Vascular pythiosis of carotid artery with meningitis and cerebral septic emboli: A case report and literature review
title_full Vascular pythiosis of carotid artery with meningitis and cerebral septic emboli: A case report and literature review
title_fullStr Vascular pythiosis of carotid artery with meningitis and cerebral septic emboli: A case report and literature review
title_full_unstemmed Vascular pythiosis of carotid artery with meningitis and cerebral septic emboli: A case report and literature review
title_short Vascular pythiosis of carotid artery with meningitis and cerebral septic emboli: A case report and literature review
title_sort vascular pythiosis of carotid artery with meningitis and cerebral septic emboli: a case report and literature review
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6022254/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30013898
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.05.003
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