Middle cerebral artery territory infarct due to Cryptococcus infectionstitle: An uncommon indication for cerebrospinal fluid analysis in stroke patients

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 632-634

  Cachia, David ^a   Singh, Charanjeet ^a   Tetzlaff, Michael T ^a   Penas Prado, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cryptococcal meningitis; disseminated cryptococcosis; lymphoma; stroke

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; RITUXIMAB;

AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISSEMINATED CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; SKIN DEFECT; STROKE PATIENT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MENINGITIS, CRYPTOCOCCAL; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PATHOLOGY; STROKE;

AGED; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, CRYPTOCOCCAL; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; STROKE;

EID: 84937022168     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.23219     Document Type: Article

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