Isolated cerebral mucormycosis is rare. We describe a patient with a brain tumor and a surgically-related Rhizopus oryzae 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.
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