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…
Fig. 1.1 Photograph of Major General Sir David Bruce (From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bruce_(microbiologist)) Surgeon-Captain Mathews Louis Hughes (1867–1899), in 1897, isolated the organism from the meninges of a patient who had died…
Fig. 7.1 Abscess in the remaining hemisphere of a hemispherectomized patient Table 7.1 A review of Brucella abscess or “brucelloma” of the brain in the available world literature Reference and…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Mehmet Turgut, Fuad Sami Haddad and Oreste de Divitiis (eds.)Neurobrucellosis10.1007/978-3-319-24639-0_13 13. Clinical Presentation of Vertebral Brucellosis Oreste de Divitiis1 , Michelangelo de Angelis1 and Andrea Elefante2 (1) Department of Neurosciences, Reproduction and Odontostomatological Sciences, School of…
Fig. 5.1 Contrast-enhanced axial T2-FLAIR (a), axial (b), and sagittal (c) T1-weighted slices in a 31-year-old man with Brucella meningitis causing visual disturbances. Diffuse and intense enhancement in the basal…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Mehmet Turgut, Fuad Sami Haddad and Oreste de Divitiis (eds.)Neurobrucellosis10.1007/978-3-319-24639-0_10 10. Brucellar Psychosis Hamid Reza Naderi1 (1) Department of Infectious Diseases, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran Hamid Reza Naderi Email: naderihr@mums.ac.ir…
Reference and date of publication Age in years Sex Symptoms Signs Neck rigidity Neuroimaging Blood evaluations CSF evaluations Tekeli et al. 1999 [14] 22 F Uncrossed diplopia, headache Intracranial hypertension …
Fig. 4.1 Brucella organisms on gram stain of colonies from blood culture of a patient with brucellosis, × 1000 (Courtesy of G.F. Araj, M.D.) Laboratory confirmation of neurobrucellosis should be…
