Cerebral macroabscess caused by Candida albicans in an immunocompetent patient: A diagnostic challenge.

ABSTRACT: We describe the history of a 24-year-old immunocompetent man with an expansive lesion in the brainstem that, after many misdiagnoses, was found to be caused by a Candida albicans abscess. One year after surgery and 3 months of fluconazole treatment, the patient was asymptomatic and all image and laboratory tests were normal.

SUBMITTER: Figueiredo SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3930960 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature