Highlights
- •Disseminated histoplasmosis with CNS involvement is not only seen in immunocompromised patients
- •The diagnosis of primary CNS vasculitis should only be made after more common causes of vessel inflammation are excluded
- •Vasculitis should be considered in patients with multi vessel distribution infarcts in the setting of systemic infection
- •Disseminated histoplasmosis can cause a small vessel cerebral vasculitis in the absence of clinically apparent meningitis
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Publication history
Published online: March 30, 2015
Accepted:
March 23,
2015
Received in revised form:
March 21,
2015
Received:
February 18,
2015
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