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Intracranial Aspergillus infection associated with an amyloid tumor and lymphoma.

B Dhamija1, M F Hassan, H Thambinayagam, A Moore, W Adams, D Hilton.   

Abstract

Intracranial aspergillus infection is an uncommon finding. The importance of a high index of clinical suspicion, coupled with an early diagnosis, can potentially be lifesaving. We illustrate the case in a patient who developed right-sided visual disturbance and facial paresthesia, where radiological diagnosis was meningioma but histopathology revealed an amyloid tumor with synchronous aspergillus infection and lymphoma at the same site. This diagnosis should always be considered, especially in immunodeficient patients, using a combination of neurological and thoracic imaging and histopathology of a resected specimen.

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Keywords:  Intracranial aspergillosis; amyloid; lymphoma; meningioma; skull base

Year:  2008        PMID: 19412411      PMCID: PMC2637077          DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1087222

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Skull Base        ISSN: 1531-5010


  7 in total

1.  Intracranial fungal granuloma: analysis of 40 patients and review of the literature.

Authors:  Arvind Dubey; Ravish V Patwardhan; Sammana Sampth; Vani Santosh; Sastry Kolluri; Anil Nanda
Journal:  Surg Neurol       Date:  2005-03

2.  Middle and posterior fossa aspergilloma.

Authors:  Jacob P Alapatt; Raja K Kutty; Priya P Gopi; Joseph Challissery
Journal:  Surg Neurol       Date:  2006-07

3.  Intracranial Aspergillus granuloma simulating meningioma on MR imaging.

Authors:  R Gupta; A K Singh; P Bishnu; V Malhotra
Journal:  J Comput Assist Tomogr       Date:  1990 May-Jun       Impact factor: 1.826

4.  Diagnostic MR imaging features of craniocerebral Aspergillosis of sino-nasal origin in immunocompetent patients.

Authors:  A A Siddiqui; S H Bashir; A Ali Shah; Z Sajjad; N Ahmed; R Jooma; S Ather Enam
Journal:  Acta Neurochir (Wien)       Date:  2005-11-09       Impact factor: 2.216

5.  Meningotheliomatous meningioma accompanied by aspergillosis at the skull base.

Authors:  T Sameshima; Y Morita; M Yanagita; T Goya; S Wakisaka; K Nabeshima
Journal:  Brain Tumor Pathol       Date:  1998       Impact factor: 3.298

6.  Voriconazole versus amphotericin B for primary therapy of invasive aspergillosis.

Authors:  Raoul Herbrecht; David W Denning; Thomas F Patterson; John E Bennett; Reginald E Greene; Jörg-W Oestmann; Winfried V Kern; Kieren A Marr; Patricia Ribaud; Olivier Lortholary; Richard Sylvester; Robert H Rubin; John R Wingard; Paul Stark; Christine Durand; Denis Caillot; Eckhard Thiel; Pranatharthi H Chandrasekar; Michael R Hodges; Haran T Schlamm; Peter F Troke; Ben de Pauw
Journal:  N Engl J Med       Date:  2002-08-08       Impact factor: 91.245

Review 7.  Invasive aspergillosis: epidemiology, diagnosis and management in immunocompromised patients.

Authors:  Georg Maschmeyer; Antje Haas; Oliver A Cornely
Journal:  Drugs       Date:  2007       Impact factor: 11.431

  7 in total

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