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Title:

Cerebrospinal fluid indices in cryptococcal and tuberculous meningitis: the spider web coagulum and its diagnostic significance.

Document type:
Case Reports; Journal Article; Article
Author(s):
Staib, F; Seibold, M; Antweiler, E; Zimmer, C; Heitz, J; Stoltenburg-Didinger, G
Abstract:
The differentiation between a chronic cryptococcal meningitis and a chronic tuberculous meningitis may cause problems for the clinician only if standard microbiological methods are not applied to the diagnosis of both infections. In a male non-AIDS patient (50 y), 11 years after a suggested diagnosis of "tuberculous meningitis", meningoencephalitis with hydrocephalus was diagnosed and treated accordingly without success. Mycobacterium tuberculosis was never found. Because fibrin fibres of a spid...     »
Journal title abbreviation:
Mycoses
Year:
1990
Journal volume:
33
Journal issue:
7-8
Pages contribution:
359-67
Language:
eng
Pubmed ID:
http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2090936
Print-ISSN:
0933-7407
TUM Institution:
Fachgebiet Neuroradiologie (Prof. Zimmer)
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