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[Use of magnetic resonance in the diagnosis of neuro-cryptococcosis in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: study of 4 patients].
Medicina Clínica 1992 Februrary 9
Neuro-cryptococcosis is a common opportunistic infection in AIDS or HIV infected patients. From a series of 10 neuro-cryptococcosis the four of them studied by magnetic resonance (MR) are reported. In AIDS patients a high suspicion of opportunistic infection of the CNS is needed as exemplified by two of the four patients who only presented cephalalgia. The other two patients suffered additional symptoms and signs of meningeal and CNS involvement, such as nuchal rigidity, cranial nerve palsies, papilloedema, gait ataxia and dismetria. Diagnosis was achieved (confirmed) by a positive culture, serology or indian ink test in CSF. CT scan did not contribute to the diagnosis and management of the patients. In contrast MR, showed in three of them a peculiar pattern of small, confluent, high-signal lesions, roughly symmetrically placed in the basal ganglia and the internal capsule. They probably correspond to the dilated Virchow-Robin spaces through which torulae migrate from the subarachnoid space.
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