Stephanie Channual MD, Presenter: Nothing to Disclose

Jimmy C.S. Huang MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Gasser M. Hathout MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

The purpose of this exhibit is: 1) To provide a pictorial review of the different presentations of Coccidioidomycosis within the central nervous system. 2) To identify imaging pearls to differentiate Coccidioidomycosis from similar-appearing diseases.

-Introduction to and pathophysiology of CNS coccidioidomycosis -Multi-modal imaging review of CNS coccidioidomycosis lesions -Differential diagnoses to CNS coccidioidomycosis, which include eosinophilic granuloma, lymphoma, sarcoidosis, neurocysticercosis, tuberculosis, and bacterial abscesses -Approach to the differential -Summary    

http://abstract.rsna.org/uploads/2014/14016213/14016213_zs61.pdf

Channual, S, Huang, J, Hathout, G, The Cocci has Moxie: Central Nervous System Coccidioidomycosis and Approach to the Differential.  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/14016213.html