Cryptococcal meningitis presenting as pseudosubarachnoid hemorrhage

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1255-1257

  Hoque, Romy ^a   Gonzalez Toledo, Eduardo ^a   Jaffe, Stephen L ^a  

^a Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptococcal choreoretinitis; Cryptococcal meningitis; Pseudosubarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; FUNGUS ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHOROID DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; ENCEPHALITIS; ERYTHROCYTE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PIA MATER; RETINITIS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPE; PARIETAL LOBE; VASCULARIZATION;

BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN EDEMA; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CHOROID DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGITIS, CRYPTOCOCCAL; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPES; PARIETAL LOBE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 58149356422     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e318183468a     Document Type: Article

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