Isolated central nervous system histoplasmosis presenting with ischemic pontine stroke and meningitis in an immune-competent patient

JAMA Neurology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 638-641

  Nguyen, Frederic N ^a   Kar, Jitesh K ^a   Zakaria, Asma ^a   Schiess, Mya C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; GLUCOSE; ITRACONAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE CYCLODEXTRIN; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM HISTOPLASMOSIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSARTHRIA; ERYTHEMA; FOLLOW UP; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; HISTOPLASMA; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; ISCHEMIC PONTINE STROKE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MENINGITIS; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSTRUCTIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN EXFOLIATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS MENINGITIS; VASCULITIS; WEAKNESS;

EID: 84877741270     PISSN: 21686149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2013.1043     Document Type: Article

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