Central nervous system fungal infections in tropics

Neuroimaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 859-866

  Khandelwal, N ^a   Gupta, Vivek ^a   Singh, Paramjeet ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Fungal infections; Immunocompromised patients; Tropical medicine

Indexed keywords

ASPERGILLUS; BLASTOMYCES; BLASTOMYCOSIS; BRAIN ABSCESS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDIASIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM ASPERGILLOSIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; MUCORMYCOSIS; MYCOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TROPICS;

BLASTOMYCOSIS; BRAIN; BRAIN ABSCESS; CANDIDIASIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNGAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGITIS, CRYPTOCOCCAL; MUCORMYCOSIS; NEUROASPERGILLOSIS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 82455219279     PISSN: 10525149     EISSN: 15579867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nic.2011.07.006     Document Type: Review

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