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ArticleJournal of investigative medicine high impact case reports

Cryptococcal Meningitis Presenting as New-Onset Seizures in an Immunocompetent Patient.

Andrea Akyeampong, Nadia Solomon, Nicholas A Boire, Aam A Baqui

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Article in Journal of investigative medicine high impact case reports. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Andrea Akyeampong1 St. George's University, True Blue, Grenada.
Nadia Solomon1 St. George's University, True Blue, Grenada.ORCID 0000-0003-0728-0095
Nicholas A Boire1 St. George's University, True Blue, Grenada.
Aam A Baqui2 The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This report describes a 30-year-old immunocompetent male with new-onset seizures, later found on imaging to have 2 enhancing lesions in the brain. The patient underwent a left parietal craniectomy with resection of one of the masses, which demonstrated focal areas of necrosis and many small cystic structures positive for periodic acid-Schiff and Gomori's methenamine silver special stain. Numerous laboratory examinations, including HIV test, rapid plasma reagin, toxoplasma immunoglobulin G and immunoglobulin M, Lyme, cytomegalovirus, tuberculosis, cysticercosis, and

Indexed as

AdultBrainCryptococcusDelayed DiagnosisHumansImmunocompetenceMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMeningitis, CryptococcalNeuroimagingSeizuresTomography, X-Ray Computedcryptococcosisdiagnostic delayinfectious diseasepathologyseizure

Identifiers

PMID31353954
PMCPMC6661782

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