Radiological manifestations of cryptococcal infection in central nervous system

Journal of the Chinese Medical Association

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 19-26

  Cheng, Yu Chen ^a   Lirng, Jiing Feng ^a,b   Chang, Feng Chi ^a   Wang, Shuu Jiun ^a,b   Fuh, Jong Ling ^a   Chen, Shing Su ^a   Mu Huo Teng, Michael ^a,b   Chang, Cheng Yen ^a  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Brain; Computed tomography; Cryptococcosis; Infection; Magnetic resonance image

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS ANTIGEN; INDIAN INK; STEROID;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FEVER; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEPTOMENINX; MALE; MEMBRANOUS GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PIGEON; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TAIWAN; BRAIN DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN DISEASES; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037643634     PISSN: 17264901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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