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Toxoplasmosis involving the rostral medulla oblongata bilaterally in a non-HIV patient

2013; Elsevier BV; Volume: 115; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.clineuro.2013.01.010

1872-6968

Tomomi Nakamura, Yuko Shimizu, Sono Toi, Miki Suzuki, Shinichiro Uchiyama,

Mosquito-borne diseases and control

Toxoplasmosis of the central nervous system (CNS) is one of he most common opportunistic infections in patients with the cquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Although toxolasma encephalitis remains difficult to diagnose on imaging tudies alone, CT/MRI features in toxoplasma encephalitis are charcterized by multiple foci in the thalamus, basal ganglia, or at the unction between white and gray matter of the cerebrum. In addiion, the ‘asymmetric/eccentric target sign’ – a ring shaped zone of eripheral enhancement with a small eccentric nodule along the all is reported as the distinctive imaging feature of toxoplasmois of the CNS [1]. On the other hand, toxoplasmosis of the CNS is nusual in non-HIV hosts and is only seen as isolated case reports. urthermore, the infectious lesions of toxoplasmosis of the CNS are sually localized in the cerebrumand rarely in thebrainstem.Acase f a non-HIV patient with toxoplasmosis in the medulla oblongata s presented.