Cryptococcal Meningitis in a HIV Seronegative Patient: A Rare Complication of Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak Detected with a New Cisternographic Technique

Immune deficiency is usually the underlying predisposing factor for cryptococcal meningitis, though there have been case reports of immunocompetent patients presenting with same. The portal of entry for Cryptococcus neoformans is the respiratory tract, and by hematogenous spread, it causes systemic...

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Autores principales: Chime, Chukwunonso, Ishak, Charbel, Kumar, Kishore, Kamal, Muhammad, Krishna, Srinivasan, Kelly, Paul, Chilimuri, Sridhar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6402215/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30915245
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/3510860

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6402215/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30915245
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/3510860

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