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ArticleSurgical neurology international2022

Mycotic clival osteomyelitis secondary to immunosuppression by SARS-CoV-2.

Julio César Delgado-Arce, Fabiola Alejandra Becerra-Arciniega, Elizabeth Escamilla-Chávez, Hector Sebastián VelascoTorres, Pablo David Guerrero-Suarez, Jaime Jesús Mártinez-Anda

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Article in Surgical neurology international, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Julio César Delgado-ArceDepartment of Neurosurgery, Centro Médico Arturo Montiel Rojas, Instituto de Seguridad Social del Estado de México y Municipios, México-Toluca, Metepec.
Fabiola Alejandra Becerra-ArciniegaDepartment of Radiology, Centro Médico Arturo Montiel Rojas, Instituto de Seguridad Social del Estado de México y Municipios, México-Toluca, Metepec.
Elizabeth Escamilla-ChávezDepartment of Neurosurgery, Centro Médico Arturo Montiel Rojas, Instituto de Seguridad Social del Estado de México y Municipios, México-Toluca, Metepec.
Hector Sebastián VelascoTorresDepartment of Neurosurgery, Centro Médico Arturo Montiel Rojas, Instituto de Seguridad Social del Estado de México y Municipios, México-Toluca, Metepec.
Pablo David Guerrero-SuarezDepartment of Neurosurgery, Centro Médico Arturo Montiel Rojas, Instituto de Seguridad Social del Estado de México y Municipios, México-Toluca, Metepec.
Jaime Jesús Mártinez-AndaDepartment of Neurological Center, ABC Medical Center, Tlaxcala Santa Fe, Mexico.

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Abstract

Background: During the past 2 years, the use of systemic corticosteroids has increased due to COVID-19 atypical pneumonia management. Similarly, an increase in mycotic infection cases has been reported during the same period as a consequence of immunosuppression caused by corticosteroid overuse. Mycotic clival osteomyelitis is a rare clinical entity which presumably has increased its incidence during the pandemic. Case Description: A 52-year-old woman who presented persistent headaches and unexplained weight loss after being hospitalized due to COVID-19 pneumonia treated with intravenous corticosteroids. Head computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging showed extensive osteomyelitis at the clival region with no brain parenchyma involvement. Surgical excision through navigation-guided transnasal transclival endoscopic extended approach was performed for surgical debridement. Histopathological analysis revealed angulated hyphae, suggestive of Conclusion: The COVID-19 pandemic has had an effect on the reemergence of mycotic infections due to corticosteroid immunosuppression. Clival osteomyelitis secondary to mycotic infection is an exclusion diagnosis that we encourage to be highly suspected within the persisting COVID-19 pandemic.

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