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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
© 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…
Fig. 11.1 A 37-year-old male presents with fever, expressive aphasia, and altered mental status. (a) CT brain shows subcortical white matter hypodensities involving the anterior frontal lobes. Brain MRI: (b)…
Fig. 6.1 Non-granulomatous encephalitis. A hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained brain section shows scattered lymphocytic infiltrates and perivascular lymphocytic cuffing (From Erdem et al. [13], with permission) 6.4 Diagnosis The diagnosis…
Fig. 9.1 Contrast-enhanced axial T2-weighted cranial MRI of a male patient with meningoencephalitis. Note the presence of fresh infarction of the left thalamus (arrowhead) (From Jochum et al. [20] with…