• Medicina · Jan 2021

    Case Reports

    Dyskeratosis congenita and a rare brain abscess.

    • Juan Bautista Blaquier, Juan Ignacio Castiglione, Ricardo Delorme, and Néstor A Wainsztein.
    • Departamento de Medicina Interna, FLENI, Buenos Aires, Argentina. E-mail: jblaquier@fleni.org.ar.
    • Medicina (B Aires). 2021 Jan 1; 81 (5): 850-852.

    AbstractDyskeratosis congenita is a rare inheritable disease which causes peculiar dermatological features and bone marrow failure with an increased risk of severe infections and neoplasia. Actinomyces spp. is part of the oral cavity flora. Invasive infections are mostly seen in immunocompromised hosts. We report a case of a rare central nervous infection and an underling inheritable disease.

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