Central nervous system cryptococcoma in immunocompetent patients: A short review illustrated by a new case

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 129-136

  Li, Qiang ^a   You, Chao ^a   Liu, Qian ^a   Liu, Yanhui ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Amphotericin B; C.neoformans; Cryptococcoma; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; DEXAMETHASONE; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE;

BACKACHE; BASAL GANGLION; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; CALCIFICATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBELLUM; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; CRYPTOCOCCOMA; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GRANULOMA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LABORATORY TEST; LETHARGY; LIBIDO DISORDER; LIMB WEAKNESS; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MENTAL DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MYCOSIS; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NEUROSURGERY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYDIPSIA; POLYURIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SEX RATIO; SOMNOLENCE; SPINAL CORD INFECTION; STEREOTACTIC BIOPSY; TAENIASIS; TORSADE DES POINTES; TUBERCULOMA; TUMOR; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNGAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74249117596     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-009-0311-8     Document Type: Review

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