Spreading along white matter tracts? - A case of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy with unusual MRI presentation

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 638-640

  Zeller, Daniel ^a   Markulin, Falko ^a   Monoranu, Camelia Maria ^a   Solymosi, László ^a   Stoll, Guido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

HIV; Magnetic resonance imaging; MR spectroscopy; PML

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLINE; CIDOFOVIR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CEREBELLUM; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HELPER CELL; HEMIPARESIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTERNUCLEAR OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; JC VIRUS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; VIRUS LOAD; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BIOPSY; BRAIN; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; FATAL OUTCOME; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; JC VIRUS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY, PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 84876112555     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: 18726968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2012.06.031     Document Type: Article

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