Elsevier

IDCases

Volume 21, 2020, e00767
IDCases

Case report
Neurotoxoplasmosis mimicking primary brain malignancy

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Abstract

Toxoplasma gondii infection is an uncommon and potentially life-threatening condition in immunocompromised patients in the setting of solid organ transplantation. We present the case of cerebral toxoplasmosis which presented as a solitary intracranial space-occupying lesion in a patient who received a combined kidney and pancreas transplant more than twenty years ago. Initially, the lesion was considered as a primary brain malignancy based on brain imaging but surprisingly the brain biopsy led to the correct diagnosis.

Keywords

Toxoplasmosis
Transplant infection

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