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Expanding Spectrum of Toxoplasma gondii: Thymoma and Toxoplasmic Encephalitis

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Abstract In this brief report, we describe a 76-year-old patient with thymoma who underwent craniotomy for a left parietal lobe mass with pathologic findings consistent with Toxoplasma gondii encephalitis in… Click to show full abstract

Abstract In this brief report, we describe a 76-year-old patient with thymoma who underwent craniotomy for a left parietal lobe mass with pathologic findings consistent with Toxoplasma gondii encephalitis in the absence of any features of thymoma with immunodeficiency/Good’s syndrome. His clinical course suggested likely Toxoplasma reactivation.

Keywords: toxoplasma gondii; encephalitis; expanding spectrum; thymoma

Journal Title: Open Forum Infectious Diseases
Year Published: 2018

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