title: Diffusion-weighted imaging of cerebral malaria.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, 88 East Newton Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA. osamu.sakai@bmc.org
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Sakai
authors.forename: Glenn D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Barest
mesh_terms: 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*