A 22 year-old man died from multiple cerebral abscesses due to Petriellidium boydii AVi months after an episode of near drowning. The autopsy showed dissemination to heart and kidney. This patient had no immunocompromising disease but was treated with corticosteroids. The treatment of this condition with ventricular shunting and amphotericin B is discussed and compared with the experience often other cases reported in the literature. RESUME: Quatre mois et demi apres une quasi-noyade, un jeune homme de 22 ans ddcede de multiples abces c£r£braux a Petriellidium boydii; I'autopsie rdvele une atteinte diss6min£e touchant le coeur et le rein. Ce patient ne souffrait d'aucune maladie immunodeTiciente mais fut traite" avec des corticosteroi'des. Les traitements utilises chez lui, soit la derivation ventriculaire et l'amphot6ricine B font l'objet de la discussion a la lumiere de l'expdrience des 10 autres cas deja rapportgs dans la literature.

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