Intracranial actinomycosis
| Autor: | Alfonso Pacheco-Hernandez, Jorque Aquino-Matus, Willem Guillermo Calderon-Miranda, Jean Carlos Pinto-Angarita, Ronsangela Ramirez-Barranco, Katherine Gomez-Barragan, Ernesto Jose Rocha-Reyes, Marco Antonio Blancas-Rivera, Zyanya Patricia Carbajal Menes, Paulo Cesar Puac Polanco, Guru Dutta Satyarthee, Luis Rafael Moscote-Salazar |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Romanian Neurosurgery, Vol 31, Iss 2 (2017) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1220-8841 2344-4959 |
| Popis: | Actinomycosis infection is a slow progressing disease, in which involvment of the central nervous system by Actinomyces israelii is uncommon (less than 5%). Clinical picture is non-specific and is often misdiagnosed with neoplasia; some clinical clues my arise suspicion. The case of a 59 year-old female is reported who presented headache and focal neurologic signs and in whom a out-of the hospital diagnosis of a neuroepitelial dysembryoplastic tumor was made; nonetheless after careful interview and physical exploration, a spectroscopy magnetic resonance of the brain and hystopathological description of the lesion was made and yielded the definitive diagnosis of intracranial actinomyces infection. Treatment and progression were uneventful. |
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