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The CT features of a young female patient suffering from systemic candidiasis with intracerebral manifestation are reported. The definite diagnosis was made by spinal fluid cultures. The diffuse granulomatous lesions as well as an abscess formation remitted after specific therapy with 5-fluorocytosine and amphotericin B for now more than 1 year. In contrast to reports of other cases with mycosis of the central nervous system this case of candidiasis shows lesions of primarily increased attenuation coefficients.
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Thron, A., Wiethölter, H. Cerebral candidiasis: CT studies in a case of brain abscess and granuloma due to candida albicans. Neuroradiology 23, 223–225 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00342547
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