Cerebral nocardiosis mimicking multiple brain metastases in a patient with locally advanced non-small-cell lung cancer

J Thorac Oncol. 2014 Mar;9(3):e24-6. doi: 10.1097/JTO.0000000000000018.

Authors

Cathy Voide¹, Stefan Zimmermann, Alex A Adjei, Daniel C Betticher, Reto Meuli, Guy Prod'hom, Stefano Giulieri, Solange Peters

Affiliation

¹ *Infectious Diseases Department, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland; †Oncology Department, Fribourg Hospital and Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne; Switzerland; ‡Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York; §Radiology Department, ‖Microbiology Institute, and ¶Oncology Department, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland.

PMID: 24518096
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0000000000000018

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use*
Brain Neoplasms / drug therapy
Brain Neoplasms / secondary*
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / diagnosis*
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / drug therapy
Diagnosis, Differential
Fatal Outcome
Humans
Lung Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Lung Neoplasms / drug therapy
Male
Nocardia / pathogenicity*
Nocardia Infections / diagnosis*
Nocardia Infections / drug therapy
Nocardia Infections / microbiology