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REPORT OF FOUR CASES

GILBERT C. ANDERSON, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1941;42(2):379-385.

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Although fungous infection of the brain is not a medical curiosity, it is sufficiently unusual to warrant the putting on record of even a small number of cases, such as the 4 reported here.

Several collective studies are on record, one of the most important of which is the review by Boyd and Crutchfield¹ in 1921. In 1928 Jacobson² reported 4 cases, in 1 of which there was cerebral involvement, and set the number of recorded cases at that time at 92. In 1936 the California state department of health³ reported 450 cases, most of which had occurred in California, with 224 deaths. The number of cerebral complications in these cases was not mentioned, but Beck,⁴ in a review of 286 cases occurring in California up to 1931, had found intracranial lesions in 18. Courville and Abbott,⁵ who in 1938 reviewed the cases in the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW ORLEANS

From the Department of Surgery of the School of Medicine of Louisiana State University and from Touro Infirmary.

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