Summary
Aspergillosis of the central nervous system (CNS) is an uncommon infection, mainly occurring in immunocompromised patients. Beside cerebral involvement spinal cord lesions are extremely rare. To our knowledge, aspergillosis initially presenting with acute paraplegia due to mycotic thrombosis of the anterior spinal artery in a formerly healthy patient has, so far, not been reported. Neither a primary focus nor an underlying disease had been detected.
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Eine Aspergillose des zentralen Nervensystems (vorwiegend cerebrum) ist eine ungewöhnliche Infektion, die hauptsächlich bei immunkompromittierten Patienten vorkommt. Eine Aspergillose, die sich initial als akutes A. spinalis anterior Syndrom präsentiert — bei mykotischer Thrombose — wurde bis jetzt noch nicht mitgeteilt. In diesem sonst gesunden Patienten war kein Fokus gefunden worden.
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Pfausler, B., Kampfl, A., Berek, K. et al. Syndrome of the anterior spinal artery as the primary manifestation of aspergillosis. Infection 23, 240–242 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01781206
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