RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Cryptococcal Choroid Plexitis as a Mass Lesion: MR Imaging and Histopathologic Correlation
JF American Journal of Neuroradiology
JO Am. J. Neuroradiol.
FD American Society of Neuroradiology
SP 273
OP 276
VO 23
IS 2
A1 Kovoor, Jerry M.E.
A1 Mahadevan, Anita
A1 Narayan, Jayakumar P.
A1 Govindappa, Srikanth S.
A1 Satishchandra, P.
A1 Taly, Anisya V.
A1 Shankar, S. K.
YR 2002
UL http://www.ajnr.org/content/23/2/273.abstract
AB Summary: Cryptococcosis is a relatively common mycotic infection of the CNS caused by a ubiquitous saprophytic fungus. We present an unusual case of CNS cryptococcosis in an immunocompetent patient. Florid choroid plexitis resulted in the formation of intraventricular enhancing mass lesions that filled the ventricles and were hyperintense to associated periventricular edema on T2-weighted MR images. We also noted lesions corresponding to microcystic, dilated Virchow-Robin spaces in the basal ganglia that were characteristic of cryptococcal infection.