Expanding Spectrum of Toxoplasma gondii: Thymoma and Toxoplasmic Encephalitis

In this brief report, we describe a 76-year-old patient with thymoma who underwent craniotomy for a left parietal lobe mass with pathologic findings consistent with Toxoplasma gondii encephalitis in the absence of any features of thymoma with immunodeficiency/Good’s syndrome. His clinical course sug...

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Autores principales: Chastain, Daniel B, Sams, Joeanna I, Steele, Gregory M, Lowder, Lindsey O, Franco-Paredes, Carlos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6051449/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30038930
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy163
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description In this brief report, we describe a 76-year-old patient with thymoma who underwent craniotomy for a left parietal lobe mass with pathologic findings consistent with Toxoplasma gondii encephalitis in the absence of any features of thymoma with immunodeficiency/Good’s syndrome. His clinical course suggested likely Toxoplasma reactivation.
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spelling pubmed-60514492018-07-23 Expanding Spectrum of Toxoplasma gondii: Thymoma and Toxoplasmic Encephalitis Chastain, Daniel B Sams, Joeanna I Steele, Gregory M Lowder, Lindsey O Franco-Paredes, Carlos Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report In this brief report, we describe a 76-year-old patient with thymoma who underwent craniotomy for a left parietal lobe mass with pathologic findings consistent with Toxoplasma gondii encephalitis in the absence of any features of thymoma with immunodeficiency/Good’s syndrome. His clinical course suggested likely Toxoplasma reactivation. Oxford University Press 2018-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6051449/ /pubmed/30038930 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy163 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. 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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