Successful treatment of multiple Pseudallescheria boydii brain abscesses and ventriculitis/ependymitis in a 2-year-old child after a near-drowning episode

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 189-192

  Mursch, Kay ^a   Trnovec, Svorad ^a   Ratz, Heinrich ^a   Hammer, Detlef ^a   Horré, Regine ^b   Klinghammer, Albrecht ^c   de Hoog, Sybren ^d   Behnke Mursch, Julianne ^a  

^a Zentralklinik ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c KLINIKUM CHEMNITZ   (Germany)

^d CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Caspofungin; Cerebral fungal abscesses; Intraventricular application of antimycotic drugs; Pseudallescheria boydii; Terbinafine; Voriconazole

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; CASPOFUNGIN; DIURETIC AGENT; STEROID; TERBINAFINE; V FEND; VORICONAZOLE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; BRAIN VENTRICULITIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MYCOSIS; NEAR DROWNING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PETRIELLIDIUM BOYDII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRAIN ABSCESS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; HUMANS; INFANT; MADUROMYCOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEAR DROWNING; NEUROSURGERY; PSEUDALLESCHERIA;

EID: 32544454788     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-005-1151-3     Document Type: Article

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