Magnetic resonance spectroscopy in the diagnosis and etiological definition of brain bacterial abscesses Espectroscopia por ressonância magnética no diagnóstico e definição etiológica dos abscessos bacterianos cerebrais

We report two patients with bacterial brain abscesses whose etiological diagnosis was correctly proposed by association of diffusion weighted images (DWI) and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) with conventional MRI. Both patients presented ring enhancing lesions with evidences of restricted diff...

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Main Authors: Lívia Tavares Morais, Verônica de Araújo Zanardi, Andréia Vasconcellos Faria
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO) 2007-12-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2007000700010