Cerebral cryptococcosis with pseudo‐meningiomatous revelation?

We report the case of a 28‐year‐old woman with history of lupus treated by Mycophenolate Mofetil and admitted for febrile meningeal syndrome associated with diplopia. Both initial and control brain MRI showed pseudo‐meningiomatous lesion while second CSF microscopy revealed characterizing images of...

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Autores principales: Hazim, Asmaa, Amriss, Omar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Clinical Images
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7752609/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33364018
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3441
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spelling pubmed-77526092020-12-23 Cerebral cryptococcosis with pseudo‐meningiomatous revelation? Hazim, Asmaa Amriss, Omar Clin Case Rep Clinical Images We report the case of a 28‐year‐old woman with history of lupus treated by Mycophenolate Mofetil and admitted for febrile meningeal syndrome associated with diplopia. Both initial and control brain MRI showed pseudo‐meningiomatous lesion while second CSF microscopy revealed characterizing images of Cryptococcus neoformans. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7752609/ /pubmed/33364018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3441 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Cerebral cryptococcosis with pseudo‐meningiomatous revelation?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7752609/
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