Hyperintensity of spinal Cryptococcus infection on diffusion-weighted MR images

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 183, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1176-1177

  Aganovic, Lejla ^a   Hoda, Rana S ^a   Rumboldt, Zoran ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; METHYLAMINE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BONE BIOPSY; BONE INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CYTODIAGNOSIS; FOREIGN BODY; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS; X RAY FILM; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; SPINE DISEASE;

ADULT; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SPINAL DISEASES;

EID: 7944237898     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.183.4.1831176     Document Type: Article

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