Cerebellar cryptococcoma in a patient with undiagnosed sarcoidosis: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Kanaly, Charles W ^a   Selznick, Lee A ^a   Cummings, Thomas J ^a   Adamson, D Cory ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Cryptococcoma; Cryptococcus; Neurosarcoidosis; Sarcoid; Sarcoidosis

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; STEROID;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIOTOMY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HEADACHE; HEMISPHERE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS;

CEREBELLAR DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, CRYPTOCOCCAL; MIDDLE AGED; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847388415     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000255338.18404.C1     Document Type: Article

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