Mycoplasmal cerebral vasculopathy in a lymphoma patient: Presumptive evidence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae microvascular endothelial cell invasion in a brain biopsy

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 309, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 18-25

  Rhodes, Roy H ^a   Monastersky, Bruce T ^b   Tyagi, Rachana ^a   Coyne, Thomas ^a  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Neurological Associates of Ocean County   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral biopsy; Electron microscopy; Encephalopathy; Gait disorder; Immunodeficiency; Immunostaining; Mycoplasma species; Vasculopathy

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AZITHROMYCIN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; CD34 ANTIGEN; GALANTAMINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PRIMIDONE; PROPRANOLOL; RITUXIMAB; STEROID;

AGED; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY TITER; APHASIA; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BLAST CELL; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CD3+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL INVASION; CELL NUCLEUS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CONVALESCENCE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FATIGUE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; FRONTAL LOBE; GAIT DISORDER; HEADACHE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MICROGLIA; MICROVASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELL; MONOCYTE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; MYCOPLASMOSIS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPEECH DISORDER; STEROID THERAPY; TEMPORAL LOBE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TREMOR; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS; VISUAL DISORDER;

AGED; BIOPSY; BRAIN; CELL MOVEMENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, FOLLICULAR; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 80052390732     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: 18785883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2011.07.043     Document Type: Article

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