Effective Treatment of Cerebral Mucormycosis Associated with Brain Surgery. Issue 5 (May 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chamdine, Omar; Gaur, Aditya H.; Broniscer, Alberto
• Is Part Of: Pediatric infectious disease journal. Volume 34:Issue 5(2015)
• Publication Date: 2015-05
• Subjects: Communicable diseases in children -- Periodicals; Infection in children -- Periodicals; 618.929
• DOI: 10.1097/INF.0000000000000626
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0891-3668

Abstract

<abstract> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <sec> <p>Isolated cerebral mucormycosis is rare. We describe a patient with a brain tumor and a surgically-related <italic>Rhizopus oryzae</italic> brain abscess. Her abscess was effectively treated with posaconazole, micafungin and colony-stimulating factor followed by posaconazole alone. To our knowledge, cerebral mucormycosis secondary to brain surgery had not been previously reported.</p> </sec> </abstract>