Curvularia fungi presenting as a large cranial base meningioma: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Singh, Harminder ^a   Irwin, Sibyl ^a   Falowski, Steven ^a   Rosen, Mark ^a   Kenyon, Lawrence ^a   Jungkind, Donald ^a   Evans, James ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Curvularia; Curvularia geniculata; Fungal central nervous system infection; Meningioma mimics; Phaeohypomycoses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CURVULARIA; CURVULARIA GENICULATA; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOSCOPY; EXOPHTHALMOS; FROZEN SECTION; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYCOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL BASE; SKULL BASE MENINGIOMA; SPINDLE CELL; VISUAL ACUITY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SKULL BASE TUMOR;

ADULT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNGAL INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 58749106432     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000335086.77846.0A     Document Type: Article

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