Imaging characteristics of toxoplasmosis encephalitis after bone marrow transplantation: Report of two cases and review of the literature

Neuroradiology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 84-89

  Mueller Mang, Christina ^a   Mang, T G ^a   Kalhs, P ^a   Thurnher, M M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bone marrow transplantation; Brain; Magnetic resonance imaging; Toxoplasmosis

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; GANCICLOVIR; PREDNISOLONE; PYRIMETHAMINE SULFADIAZINE; STEROID;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; APATHY; AUTOPSY; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DEATH; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ENCEPHALITIS; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPASTICITY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ADULT; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CEREBRAL;

EID: 32344448930     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-005-0018-3     Document Type: Review

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