Solitary parietal lobe histoplasmoma mimicking a brain tumor.

Scand J Infect Dis

Division of Infectious Diseases, The University of Texas-Houston Medical School, 77030, USA.

Published: December 2002

We describe a rare case of Histoplasma infection, which manifested only as a brain histoplasmoma, in a previously healthy woman who had no underlying predisposing conditions. Only a few cases of such intracranial histoplasmomas have been reported but this entity can mimic a brain neoplasm and should be a diagnostic consideration during the evaluation of ring-enhancing brain lesions.

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