Reversible bilateral opercular syndrome secondary to AIDS-associated cerebral toxoplasmosis.
A case of reversible anterior bilateral opercular syndrome (Foix-Chavany-Marie syndrome) secondary to cerebral toxoplasma abscesses is described in a patient with AIDS. The symptoms regressed following antitoxoplasma and antiedema drug therapy. Although this is the first reported AIDS-related case, the syndrome is likely to recur in AIDS sufferers in whom multifocal cerebral lesions are common.
Grassi
M P
MP
I Clinica Neurologica, Università di Milano, Ospedale L. Sacco, Milano.
Borella
M
M
Clerici
F
F
Perin
C
C
Bini
M T
MT
Mangoni
A
A
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D000328:Adult; D001929:Brain Edema / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy; D005158:Facial Paralysis / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008410:Masticatory Muscles / Q000503:physiopathology; D010243:Paralysis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010609:Pharyngeal Muscles / Q000503:physiopathology; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous / Q000150:complications; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016781:Toxoplasmosis, Cerebral / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy