Spinal cord toxoplasma lesion in AIDS: MR findings. |
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| Authors: | T P Poon V Tchertkoff G F Pares A V Masangkay M Daras J Marc |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Clinical Pathology, New York Medical College-Metropolitan Hospital Center, New York 10029. |
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| Abstract: | Toxoplasma gondii is the cause of the most common opportunistic infection of the brain in AIDS but is extremely rare as the cause of a solitary lesion of the spinal cord. Symptoms are weakness of the lower limbs followed closely by paralysis unless diagnosed and treated early. We present such a case in an intravenous drug abuser with AIDS and emphasize that MRI is the diagnostic tool of choice and that the index of suspicion should be high in immunosuppressed patients. |
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