Central Nervous System Abscesses Due to Coccidioides Species
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Central nervous system abscesses due to Coccidioides species.
Meningitis occurs in one-third to one-half of patients with disseminated coccidioidomycosis, but mass lesions have rarely been described; these lesions are usually found at autopsy. We report six cases of disseminated coccidioidomycosis with central nervous system (CNS) abscesses. Four patients had cerebellar involvement, and two had spinal cord involvement. Four patients were diabetic, and two...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 1996
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/22.2.240