Cryptococcal Meningoencephalitis Presenting as Cerebell itis - A case report -

Abstract

, , We herein report an elderly patient with cryptococcosis in the nervous system who presented with cerebellar dysfunction and showed cerebellar parenchymal lesion with adjacent focal meningeal enhancement on the brain CT and the serial brain MRls. The cerebellar lesion suggests cryptococcal inflammatory reaction or a cerebellar infarction from the arteritis of a branch of the left superior cerebellar artery. This clinical and neuroimaging finding of cerebellitis has not been reported in cryptococcosis. We think cryptococcosis would be included in the differential diagnosis of cerebellitis.