Magnetic resonance imaging findings in AIDS patients with central nervous system cryptococcosis

Revista Iberoamericana de Micologia

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 211-214

  Corti, Marcelo ^a,b   Villafañe, María Florencia ^a   Negroni, Ricardo ^a   Arechavala, Alicia ^a   Maiolo, Elena ^a  

^a HOSPITAL F J MUÑIZ   (Argentina)

^b Infectious Diseases E J Muñiz Hospital   (Argentina)

Author keywords

AIDS; Cryptococcomas; Cryptococcus neoformans; Gelatinous pseudocysts; Neuroimages; Virchow Robin spaces

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS ANTIGEN; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AIDS PATIENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FUNGUS CULTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEOCYTOSIS; PSEUDOCYST; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGITIS, CRYPTOCOCCAL; POLYSACCHARIDES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 61449494783     PISSN: 11301406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1130-1406(08)70051-2     Document Type: Article

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