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Isolated primary intracerebral mycetoma: presenting as a mass lesion
in a patient with prostate cancer and multiple myeloma Shyam Prabhakaran, Philip H. Gutin,
Andrei Holodny and Jeffrey J. Raizer
Department
of Neurology and Neuroscience, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill
Medical Center of Cornell University, USA [S.P.]. Department of
Neurosurgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA [P.H.G.].
Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA
[A.H.]. Department of Neurology, Feinberg School of Medicine,
Northwestern University, Abbott Hall, Room 1123, 710 North Lake Shore
Drive, Chicago, IL, USA [J.J.R.]. Correspondence to:
Jeffrey J. Raizer, Email: jraizer@nmff.org, Phone:
+312-503-4724, Fax: +312-908-5073. We
report a patient with a history of prostate cancer and multiple
myeloma, with a solitary indolent intracerebral mass lesion without
any constitutional symptoms and minimal neurologic symptoms.
The radiographic appearance of the lesion
was that of a tumor but resection revealed a mycetoma, consistent with
Aspergillus.
A brief review of the literature discusses
the rarity, presentation, diagnosis, and management of primary
intracerebral mycetomas. Keywords: aspergilloma - cancer - intracerebral
mycetoma © Springer 2005 Source:
http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&eissn=1573-7373&volume=71&issue=1&spage=49
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11060-004-6598-7
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