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A 58-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with complaints of general fatigue, thirst and lumbago. A diagnosis of Cushing's syndrome was made on the basis of elevated serum levels of cortisol and adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH). Although Cushing's disease was most suspected, no evident
A 27 year-old Vietnamese male immigrant to Canada developed a hemispheric cerebellar abscess. The patient presented at the hospital with osteomyelitis of the 5th finger of the left hand. He complained of lassitude, weight loss, and early morning headache, nausea, and vomiting, and he developed a
We report a case of cerebral phaeohyphomycosis in a 36-year-old male caused by the neurotropic fungus Ramichloridium obovoideum (Matushima) de Hoog 1977 (Ramichloridium mackenziei Campbell et Al-Hedaithy 1993). This man resided in the Middle East, where the fungus appears to be endemic and,
Corynebacterium equi, an aerobic, variably acid-fast, gram-positive "diphtheroid," is an unusual cause of pulmonary infection in immunosuppressed patients. Initially, infection with C. equi may be mistaken for a mycobacterial infection. Two cases in a two-year period were observed and compared with