Cryptococcal choroid plexitis an uncommon fungal disease. Case report and review

Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 117-122

  Cárdenas Hernández, Graciela Agar ^a   Vega, Orozco Rosalba ^a   Castro, Macias Ivan ^a   Fleury, Agnes ^a   Gómez Amador, Juan Luis ^a   Soto Hernández, José Luis ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; AMPHOTERICIN B; CORTICOSTEROID; FUROSEMIDE; ITRACONAZOLE;

ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BABINSKI REFLEX; BRAIN INFECTION; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHOROID PLEXUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CRANIECTOMY; CRYPTOCOCCAL CHOROID PLEXITIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; DIPLOPIA; DRUG RESPONSE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPERREFLEXIA; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MUTISM; MYCOSIS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAPILLEDEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; SOMNOLENCE; STUPOR; URINE INCONTINENCE;

EID: 61349178898     PISSN: 03171671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0317167100006454     Document Type: Article

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