Serial MRI findings in patients with CNS cryptococcosis

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 831-837

  Kumazawa, Kazuhiko ^a   Yamada, Tomoko ^a   Nakamori, Taro ^a   Hoshino, Akira ^a   Terao, Shin Ichi ^a   Mitsuma, Terunori ^a  

^a AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CNS cryptococcosis; Cryptococcal meningitis; Cryptococoma; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Virchow Robin space

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY;

AGED; BRAIN; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0032461212     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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