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Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). (a) Contrast-enhanced T1-weighted MRI showing a lesion with mass effect in the right parietal lobe and (b) the same image using the fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) sequence
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Brain MRI showed an expansive, relatively well-defined mass in the right parietal lobe [Figure 1a and b].
Histological sections showing (a) the edge of brain parenchyma with reactive infiltrate of lymphocytes and giant cells with central necrosis gliosis (H and E, x100) and (b) presence of characteristic helm-shaped yeasts compatible with paracoccidioidomycosis (Gomori methenamine silver stain, 600x)
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