| Autor: |
Meenal Sharma, Chris Anthony, Charlie Chia-Tsong Hsu, Catriona Maclean, Niki Martens |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2015 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, Vol 2, Iss 4 (2015) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2284-2594 |
| DOI: |
10.12890/2015_000207 |
| Popis: |
Disseminated nocardiosis of the central nervous system (CNS) has been rarely reported, especially in the immunocompetent patient. We report a case of cerebral and cervical intradural extramedullary nocardiosis likely to have been the result of disseminated spread from a pulmonary infective focus. Attempts at tissue biopsy and culture of the initial cerebral and pulmonary lesions both failed to yield the diagnosis. Interval development of a symptomatic intradural extramedullary cervical lesion resulted in open biopsy and an eventual diagnosis of nocardiosis was made. We highlight the diagnostic dilemma and rarity of spinal nocardial dissemination in an immunocompetent individual. |
| Databáze: |
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