Diffusion-weighted imaging of cerebral malaria.
Cerebral malaria occurs in 2% of patients infected by Plasmodium falciparum. Magnetic resonance imaging findings of small white matter infarcts due to cerebral malaria have been previously reported, however nonspecific. Since diffusion-weighted imaging can differentiate acute embolic infarcts from other chronic or nonspecific white matter lesions, it may aid diagnosis of this illness in patients who travel to endemic areas.
Sakai
Osamu
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Department of Radiology, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, 88 East Newton Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA. osamu.sakai@bmc.org
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology*; D038524:Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016779:Malaria, Cerebral / Q000175:diagnosis*