Rare appearance of Candida tropicalis infection of the brain: Multiple micro-abscesses combined with diffuse hemorrhages

Radiology of Infectious Diseases - Tập 1 - Trang 33-36 - 2014
Yu Guo1, Penghui Wang1, Ling Lu2, Shuang Xia1, Wen Shen1
1Department of Radiology, Tianjin First Central Hospital, the First Central Clinical College of Tianjin Medical University, No. 24, Fukang Road, Nankai District, Tianjin 300192, PR China
2Department of Neurology, Tianjin First Central Hospital, the First Central Clinical College of Tianjin Medical University, No. 24, Fukang Road, Nankai District, Tianjin 300192, PR China

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