title: Spinal cord syndromes in the acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
abstract: Two patients with AIDS developed paraparesis. Neuropathological post mortem examination in one revealed cytomegalovirus polyradiculopathy, and in the second, vacuolar myelopathy which occurred in association with brain lesions resembling Marchiafava-Bignami Syndrome.
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D000328:Adult; D003586:Cytomegalovirus Infections / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D006457:Hemoglobinuria, Paroxysmal / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009186:Myelin Sheath / Q000473:pathology; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology