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Spinal cord syndromes in the acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Author(s) -
Singh B.M.,
Levine S.,
Yarrish R.L.,
Hyland M.J.,
Jeanty D.,
Wormser G.P.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
acta neurologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.967
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1600-0404
pISSN - 0001-6314
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1986.tb04605.x
Subject(s) - polyradiculopathy , medicine , spinal cord , myelopathy , spinal cord diseases , pathology , cytomegalovirus , immunology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , viral disease , herpesviridae , psychiatry
Two patients with AIDS developed paraparesis. Neuropathological post mortem examination in one revealed cytomegalovirus polyradiculopathy, and in the second, vacuolar myelopathy which occurred in association with brain lesions resembling Marchiafava‐Bignami Syndrome.