Amoebic encephalitis: case report and literature review of neuroimaging findings

We present a fatal case of amoebic encephalitis due to Acanthamoeba spp. in an immunosuppressed male. Amoebic encephalitis can be a diagnostic challenge as clinical features are non-specific and imaging findings resemble other more common diagnoses such as tumours, haemorrhage or encephalitis from o...

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Autores principales: Lukies, Matthew William, Watanabe, Yoshiyuki, Maeda, Tetsuo, Kusakabe, Shinsuke, Arita, Hideyuki, Tomiyama, Noriyuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology 2016
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6243338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30459996
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150499
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Sumario:We present a fatal case of amoebic encephalitis due to Acanthamoeba spp. in an immunosuppressed male. Amoebic encephalitis can be a diagnostic challenge as clinical features are non-specific and imaging findings resemble other more common diagnoses such as tumours, haemorrhage or encephalitis from other causes. Here, we present the diagnostic imaging findings in this case and review the reported imaging findings in other cases throughout the literature.

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