Serial MRI findings in patient with chronic cryptococcus meningo-encephalitis

Neurol Res. 2001 Dec;23(8):810-2. doi: 10.1179/016164101101199397.

Abstract

We describe the serial changes of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in a patient with chronic cryptococcus meningo-encephalitis. In the subacute phase, MRI revealed a focal lesion with hyperintensity on T2-weighted image (WI) in the left thalamus. At 11 months after the onset, MRI showed a focal lesion with hyperintensity on T2-WI in the right pons that was enhanced with gadolinium (Gd). At 13 months after the onset, the lesion in the left thalamus became rim enhanced with Gd. After antifungal therapy (amphotericin B and 5-flucytosine), the rim enhancement in the left thalamus and the high signal intensity area in the right pons decreased. Cryptococcoma should be in the differential from other ring enhancing lesions.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Chronic Disease
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging*
  • Male
  • Meningitis, Cryptococcal / pathology*
  • Middle Aged
  • Pons / pathology*
  • Thalamus / pathology*