Central nervous system cryptococcoma in a Ugandan patient with Human Immunodeficiency Virus.

ABSTRACT: Mortality due to AIDS-related Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) is often >50% in low-middle income countries. Dissemination of CM can result in intracranial mass lesions known as cryptococcoma. Patients who develop cryptococcomas often have worse outcomes when compared to patients with cryptococcosis without cryptococcoma. We describe a cryptococcoma in the central nervous system (CNS) in a Ugandan patient with AIDS, and review the diagnosis and management with special focus on difficulties encountered in low or middle-income countries.

SUBMITTER: Velamakanni SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4216327 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature