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Coccidioidal meningitis: incidental diagnosis 3 y after ventriculo-peritoneal shunt placement for hydrocephalus
Mohammad O Almoujahed1, Leonard B Johnson, Randy Gehring
1Department of Medicine-Infectious Diseases, St John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan 48236, USA. leonard.johnson@stjohn.org
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
|April 4, 2002
Abstract:
A patient from the American Midwest developed hydrocephalus after a trip to southwest California, necessitating placement of a ventriculo-peritoneal shunt. Coccidioidal meningitis was diagnosed incidentally 3 y later, during evaluation for shunt malfunction.