[Acquired cerebral toxoplasmosis: 3 anatomoclinical cases].
Clinical and pathological findings in three adults with toxoplasmosis of the central nervous system are reported. Symptoms and signs in the first patient, a Haitian woman who had lived in France for 2 years, were suggestive of a right hemispheric space-occupying process. The second case was a woman treated for Hodgkin's disease who showed symptoms and signs of a meningoencephalitis. The presenting lesion in case 3 mimicked a tumor of the posterior fossa. Analysis of these 3 cases and of those previously reported underlines: 1) diagnostic difficulties, particularly in immunodepressed patients; 2) the effectiveness of immunoperoxidase for pathological diagnosis; 3) the poor prognosis due to absence of a specific treatment.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology*; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006205:Haiti / Q000208:ethnology; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008590:Meningoencephalitis / Q000175:diagnosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014123:Toxoplasmosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*
Toxoplasmose cérébrale acquise: trois cas anatomocliniques.