The spectrum of MRI findings in CNS cryptococcosis in AIDS

Brain and Language

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 842-850

  Miszkiel, K A ^a   Hall Craggs, M A ^a   Miller, R F ^a   Kendall, B E ^a   Wilkinson, I D ^a   Paley, M N ^a   Harrison, M J G ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN ARACHNOID CYST; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; DURA MATER; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEPTOMENINX; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 22644445942     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0009-9260(96)80080-8     Document Type: Article

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