Surgical Therapy of Neurobrucellosis
Fig. 21.1 An unusual presentation of unilateral brain, skull, and cutis abscess due to neurobrucellosis observed in a 64-year-old man, a country worker who gave no importance to the skin…
Brucellar Spondylitis as a Complication of Brucellosis
Fig. 12.1 Sagittal T1-weighted MRI shows posterior longitudinal ligament elevation (arrow) and marked enhancement of disk and vertebral end plate after gadolinium administration Fig. 12.2 (a, b) Sagittal T1-weighted MRI…
Epidural and Subdural Spinal Brucellosis
Fig. 15.1 Brucella colonies recovered on blood agar from blood culture of a patient with brucellosis (Courtesy of G.F. Araj, M.D.) Brucellosis-associated central nervous system involvement is called neurobrucellosis, and…
Medical Therapy of Neurobrucellosis
Fig. 20.1 Sagittal MRIs from a 62-year-old man with brucellar spondylodiscitis. (a) T1-weighted image showing irregularity and destruction of vertebral end plates and hypointensity at T11 to L2. (b) T2-weighted…
Imaging of Vertebral Brucellosis
Fig. 14.1 (a) Sagittal STIR FAST image of a male patient showing involvement of two segments. (b) Sagittal T2-weighted image of the same patient. Note the different stages of the…
Cranial Nerve Involvement in Brucellosis
Fig. 18.1 (a) Axial T1-weighted gadolinium-enhanced MRI showing the presence of a solid nodule with a diameter of 1.5 cm in the right parietal cortex with vasogenic edema. (b) Axial…
Scalp and Cranium Neurobrucellosis
Fig. 3.1 Plain radiograph demonstrating a radiolucent osteolytic lesion in the left supraorbital region in the same patient (white arrow) (From Sohn et al. [47], with permission) Magnetic resonance imaging…
Brucella Polyradiculoneuritis
Fig. 17.1 A 35-year-old woman with numbness of lower extremity. (a) Sagittal T2-weighted MRI scan shows loss of low signal intensity of the cortical end plates and high signal in…
Intramedullary Brucellosis
Fig. 16.1 T1-weighted sagittal cervical MRI shows homogenously contrast-enhanced intramedullary lesion with regular shape at the C2 level (From Nas et al. [10], with permission) Fig. 16.2 T1-weighted axial MRI…
Standard and New Laboratory Procedures in Neurobrucellosis
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Mehmet Turgut, Fuad Sami Haddad and Oreste de Divitiis (eds.)Neurobrucellosis10.1007/978-3-319-24639-0_19 19. Standard and New Laboratory Procedures in Neurobrucellosis George F. Araj1 (1) Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical…
