Cryptococcal choroid plexitis: rare imaging findings of central nervous system cryptococcal infection in an immunocompetent individual

Br J Radiol. 2010 Jan;83(985):e14-7. doi: 10.1259/bjr/50945216.

Abstract

Central nervous system (CNS) cryptococcosis is a common opportunistic fungal infection in immunocompromised patients, and the imaging findings differ from those in immunocompetent patients. Here, we present the imaging findings in an immunocompetent woman of a rare case of central nervous system cryptococcal choroid plexitis with trapped temporal horns, enlarged enhancing bilateral choroid plexuses and multiple intraventricular choroid plexus cysts.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Choroid Plexus / microbiology*
  • Choroid Plexus / pathology
  • Cryptococcus neoformans*
  • Female
  • Headache / etiology
  • Humans
  • Immunocompetence
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Meningitis, Cryptococcal / cerebrospinal fluid
  • Meningitis, Cryptococcal / complications
  • Meningitis, Cryptococcal / diagnosis*
  • Vomiting / etiology