Imaging features of central nervous system fungal infections

Neurology India

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 241-250

  Jain, Krishan ^a   Mittal, Shireesh ^a   Kumar, Sunil ^a   Gupta, Rakesh ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; Brain; Central nervous system; Computed tomography; Diffusion weighted imaging; Fungal infection; Infection; Magnetic resonance (MR); Proton MR spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ASPERGILLOSIS; BLASTOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; BLASTOMYCOSIS; BRAIN ABSCESS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; MUCORMYCOSIS; MYCOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REVIEW; RHIZOPUS ORYZAE; SPONDYLITIS;

EID: 35048833720     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.35685     Document Type: Review

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