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
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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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author Lukies, Matthew William
Watanabe, Yoshiyuki
Maeda, Tetsuo
Kusakabe, Shinsuke
Arita, Hideyuki
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description 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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spelling pubmed-62433382018-11-20 Amoebic encephalitis: case report and literature review of neuroimaging findings Lukies, Matthew William Watanabe, Yoshiyuki Maeda, Tetsuo Kusakabe, Shinsuke Arita, Hideyuki Tomiyama, Noriyuki BJR Case Rep Case Report 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. The British Institute of Radiology 2016-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6243338/ /pubmed/30459996 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150499 Text en © 2016 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6243338/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150499
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