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J Neurol Surg A Cent Eur Neurosurg 2016; 77(05): 452-456
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1558415
Case Report
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Surgical Treatment Alone of Cerebral Aspergillosis in Immunocompetent Patient

Daniel Beraldo
1   Department of Nephrology, UNIFESP, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
2   Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Renascentista, Pouso Alegre, Minas Gerais, Brazil
,
Ramon Guerra
3   Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital das Clínicas Samuel Libânio, Pouso Alegre, Minas Gerais, Brazil
,
Vinícius Alvarenga
3   Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital das Clínicas Samuel Libânio, Pouso Alegre, Minas Gerais, Brazil
,
Letícia Crepaldi
3   Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital das Clínicas Samuel Libânio, Pouso Alegre, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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17 May 2014

31 March 2015

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Abstract

Aspergillosis is a disease that predominantly affects immunocompromised patients. The incidence in immunocompetents is rare, and manifestation is generally pulmonary. Few reports in the literature refer to isolated cerebral aspergillosis in individuals with no chronic comorbidities. We describe a case of a 59-year-old rural worker without previous pathologies who had a partial convulsive crisis in a subtle form, with self-limiting and nonrecurrent secondary generalization. Diagnostic investigation demonstrated a subcortical tumorlike lesion in the right precentral gyrus by nuclear magnetic resonance that allowed en bloc microsurgical resection, with histopathologic findings indicating cerebral aspergillosis. Because of the delay in obtaining the result of the biopsy due to technical difficulties with analysis, the diagnosis was delayed. The patient was clinically stable, with imaging without modifications and with negative serologic tests, so it was decided to follow the patient without antifungal therapy, which was successful. This was a case of isolated cerebral aspergillosis in an immunocompetent individual who was successfully treated by complete resection of the lesion alone, without combined antifungal therapy.

Keywords

aspergillosis - central nervous system - seizures
 

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