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Primary Intravascular Lymphomatosis Associated with Mycobacterium marinum
Author(s) -
Sokol Deborah K.,
Azzarelli Biagio,
Smith Richard R.,
Kassing Laura C.,
Roos Karen L.,
Pascuzzi Robert M.,
Blinkhorn Richard J.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of neuroimaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1552-6569
pISSN - 1051-2284
DOI - 10.1111/jon19988147
Subject(s) - medicine , mycobacterium marinum , pathology , autopsy , occult , mycobacterium , tuberculosis , alternative medicine
Intravascular lymphomatosis (IVL) is a rare condition in which neoplastic cells preferentially infiltrate blood vessels of the central nervous system. Nonspecific symptoms associated with IVL include dementia, seizures, and multifocal cerebrovascular events. IVL was discovered at autopsy of a patient whose neurological deficits were predated by a particularly aggressive form of Mycobacterium marinum soft–tissue infection. It is speculated that IVL may have had an occult effect on the patient's cellmediated immunity that predisposed him to this normally innocuous mycobacteria.