Listeria Monocytogenes Brain Abscesses in a Patient with Disseminated Non-Small Cellular Lung Cancer: MRI Findings

Anders Lykkemark Simonsen; Nitesh Shekhrajka; Frederik Boetius Hertz; Jannik Helweg-Larsen; Ase Bengard Andersen; Anne-Mette Lebech

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Listeria Monocytogenes Brain Abscesses in a Patient with Disseminated Non-Small Cellular Lung Cancer: MRI Findings

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Listeria Monocytogenes Brain Abscesses in a Patient with Disseminated Non-Small Cellular Lung Cancer: MRI Findings

Anders Lykkemark Simonsen, Nitesh Shekhrajka, Frederik Boetius Hertz, Jannik Helweg-Larsen, Ase Bengard Andersen and Anne-Mette Lebech

Diagnostics (Basel), Vol.11(6), p.1115

06/18/2021

DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics11061115

PMCID: PMC8235038

PMID: 34207242

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Brain abscesses caused by Listeria monocytogenes (LM) are very rare and carry a high mortality risk. We present a patient with disseminated non-small cellular lung cancer (NSCLC) and multiple unusual LM brain abscesses. These abscesses have multiple elongated peripherally enhancing lesions in a characteristic formation that is "worm or tramtrack-like" following the white matter fiber tracts.

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Title: Subtitle: Listeria Monocytogenes Brain Abscesses in a Patient with Disseminated Non-Small Cellular Lung Cancer: MRI Findings
Creators: Anders Lykkemark Simonsen - Rigshospitalet
Nitesh Shekhrajka - Rigshospitalet
Frederik Boetius Hertz - Rigshospitalet
Jannik Helweg-Larsen - Rigshosp, Heart Ctr, Dept Infect Dis, Blegdamsvej 9, DK-2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark
Ase Bengard Andersen - Rigshospitalet
Anne-Mette Lebech - Rigshosp, Heart Ctr, Dept Infect Dis, Blegdamsvej 9, DK-2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Diagnostics (Basel), Vol.11(6), p.1115
Publisher: Mdpi
DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics11061115
PMID: 34207242
PMCID: PMC8235038
ISSN: 2075-4418
eISSN: 2075-4418
Number of pages: 5
Language: English
Date published: 06/18/2021
Academic Unit: Radiology
Record Identifier: 9984697625102771

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