… retropulsion, deformity, and a spinal epidural abscess, and we discuss the relevant literature…
blastomycosis abscesses are rare, and we report one of the rare instances of dissemination …

… infection may result in vertebral body destruction and paraspinal and epidural abscess …
Blastomycosis that disseminates to the spine may cause serious neurologic and structural …

… blastomycosis should be a diagnostic consideration for any patient with a destructive
vertebral lesion. Blastomycosis … clinical features of fungus Blastomyces dermatitidis, which is …

… Hematogenous dissemination to brain parenchyma is … epidural abscesses and meningitis
were more readily recognized during life, whereas brain and intracranial epidural abscesses …

… in 5–10% of disseminated blastomycosis cases.[2] CNS blastomycosis without evidence of
… Finally, CNS infection can also present as an epidural abscess, whether in the spinal canal …

… This case report describes disseminated blastomycosis … blastomycosis is less common in
immunocompetent patients and can manifest as meningitis, epidural abscess, or brain abscess …

… epidural abscess causing mass effect on the right frontal lobe (Figure 1). A right frontoparietal
craniectomy with evacuation of an epidural … diagnosed with disseminated blastomycosis 6 …

… or sporadic endemic infection. Blastomycosis can be a subclinical illness with subsequent
protection against progressive infection afforded by cellular immune mechanisms, but it may …

… Multiorgan involvement in North American blastomycosis is not uncommon, … site of
dissemination of blastomycosis is the skin, believed to occur in 20%–40% of cases of disseminated …

… Disseminated blastomycosis usually begins with a lung infection that spreads to the skin, …
is typified by intracranial or epidural abscesses, spinal epidural granuloma or, less commonly, …