Intracranial phycomycosis: case reports

Neurosurgery. 1988 Jul;23(1):108-11. doi: 10.1227/00006123-198807000-00020.

Abstract

Cerebral phycomycosis is a rare disease. We describe two patients with unusual features of focal intracranial phycomycosis: a diabetic patient with chronic epidural abscess and a healthy individual with an isolated intracerebral abscess. Biopsy established the diagnosis in both patients. Treatment was successful in the patient with intracerebral abscess.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Amphotericin B / therapeutic use
  • Biopsy
  • Brain Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain Diseases / drug therapy
  • Brain Diseases / microbiology*
  • Female
  • Flucytosine / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mycoses / diagnostic imaging*
  • Mycoses / drug therapy
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed*

Substances

  • Amphotericin B
  • Flucytosine