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Spastic paraparesis due to cryptococcal osteomyelitis. A case report
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
|June 1, 1985
Summary
This study reports a rare case of vertebral cryptococcosis causing paraparesis in Japan. Successful treatment involved surgery and antifungal therapy, with no recurrence observed.
Area of Science:
- Infectious Diseases
- Neurosurgery
- Mycology
Background:
- Skeletal cryptococcosis, particularly isolated osteomyelitis from Cryptococcus neoformans, is exceptionally rare.
- Vertebral involvement without systemic infection is seldom documented, with only seven prior cases globally.
- This case represents the first reported instance of vertebral cryptococcosis in Japan.