Alfonso Pacheco-Hernandez
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Jorque Aquino-Matus
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Willem Guillermo Calderon-Miranda
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Jean Carlos Pinto-Angarita
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Ronsangela Ramirez-Barranco
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Abstract
Actinomycosis infection is a slow progressing disease, in which involvment of the central nervous system by Actinomyces israelii is uncommon (less than 5%). Clinical picture is non-specific and is often misdiagnosed with neoplasia; some clinical clues my arise suspicion. The case of a 59 year-old female is reported who presented headache and focal neurologic signs and in whom a out-of the hospital diagnosis of a neuroepitelial dysembryoplastic tumor was made; nonetheless after careful interview and physical exploration, a spectroscopy magnetic resonance of the brain and hystopathological description of the lesion was made and yielded the definitive diagnosis of intracranial actinomyces infection. Treatment and progression were uneventful.
Idiopathic infratentorial superficial siderosis of the central nervous system: case report and review of literature
