MR Imaging in Toxoplasmosis Encephalitis after Bone Marrow Transplantation: Paucity of Enhancement despite Fulminant Disease

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 270-273

  Ionita, Catalina ^a   Wasay, Mohammed ^d   Balos, Lucia ^a   Bakshi, Rohit ^a,b,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b GATES VASCULAR INSTITUTE AT KALEIDA HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; COMA; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE COURSE; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS ENCEPHALITIS; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN; BRAIN EDEMA; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGES; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CEREBRAL;

EID: 1242271433     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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