Osteoarticular mycoses are chronic debilitating infections that require extended courses of
antifungal therapy and may warrant expert surgical intervention. As there has been no …

Background Cranial osteomyelitis is a rare but potentially life-threatening condition that
requires early diagnosis with prompt and appropriate management by neurosurgeons to …

Skeletal cryptococcosis, an aspect of disseminated cryptococcal disease or isolated skeletal
cryptococcal infection, is a rare but treatable disease. However, limited information is …

Cryptococcus neoformans is a fungal pathogen associated with advanced HIV disease and
other disorders associated with immune dysfunction. The pulmonary and the central nervous …

BACKGROUND Cryptococcal osteomyelitis is a bone infection caused by cryptococcus. As
an opportunistic infection, bone cryptococcosis usually occurs in patients with …

Cryptococcal osteomyelitis is extremely rare and almost always occurs in
immunocompromised patients. We describe a case of osteomyelitis due to Cryptococcus …

We report the case of a probable meningioma in a cranium excavated from the Medieval site
of Portmahomack on the Tarbat Peninsula in Scotland (Carver, 2008). Stratigraphic …

Most fungal infections primarily occur in immunocompromised patients. We describe a case
of osteomyelitis involving the first metatarsal head due to Cryptococcus neoformans in a …

Osteomyelitis due to Cryptococcus neoformans are described in mostly 10% of patients with
disseminated cryptococcosis, being direct inoculation even more uncommon. We report the …

Epidermoid bone cysts are rare, unilocular, and slow growing. They develop by the
accumulation of ectodermal remnants, and they may be congenital or acquired. The most …