Citation

Hussain FS, Hussain NS. Cureus 2016; 8(7): e696.

Affiliation

Department of Neurosurgery, Loma Linda University Medical Center.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Curēus)

DOI

10.7759/cureus.696

PMID

27672528

PMCID

PMC5031924

Abstract

Intracranial mucormycosis is a very unusual presentation of an infection after a depressed skull fracture due to an assault. Only sporadic cases have been reported in the literature previously. A 30-year-old male with a traumatic brain injury following an assault, status-post debridement and elevation of a depressed skull fracture, was discharged home several weeks postoperatively. A CT scan of the head with contrast was obtained due to mental status changes and revealed an enhancing ring-shaped lesion in the right frontal lobe consistent with a brain abscess. The patient was taken to the operating room for image-guided excisional biopsy of the lesion, with pathology revealing mucormycosis.

Language: en