[Serial 123I-IMP SPECT in a case of cryptococcal meningoencephalitis].
We performed serial brain perfusion SPECT studies using 123I-IMP in the course of cryptococcal meningoencephalitis. Increased perfusion was detected in the cerebellum coinciding with the appearance of the abnormality on MRI. The perfusion in the lesion was then decreased as the abnormality on MRI disappeared. Cryptococcal meningoencephalitis should be also taken in the differential diagnosis when the inflammatory brain lesion shows increased perfusion.
Ono
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S
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kawasaki Medical School.
Funakawa
I
I
Shibata
A
A
Morita
K
K
Nagai
K
K
Sone
T
T
Otsuka
N
N
Terao
A
A
Fukunaga
M
M
D000368:Aged; D000662:Amphetamines; D001921:Brain / Q000098:blood supply / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D020367:Iofetamine; D008297:Male; D016919:Meningitis, Cryptococcal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008590:Meningoencephalitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D012039:Regional Blood Flow; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
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