Brain Abscess Due to Petriellidium boydii
- 1 August 1984
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences
- Vol. 11 (3) , 395-398
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0317167100045790
Abstract
A 22 year-old man died from multiple cerebral abscesses due to Petriellidium boydii 4 ½ months after an episode of near drowning. The autopsy showed dissemination to heart and kidney. This patient had no immunocompromising disease but was treated with corticosteroids. The treatment of this condition with ventricular shunting and amphotericin B is discussed and compared with the experience often other cases reported in the literature.Keywords
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