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Lymphomatous meningoencephalitis in a patient with HAM/TSP
I Gomes1, M H Nascimento, O A Moreno-Carvalho
1Unidade de Neuroinfectologia, Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, Brasil.
Arquivos De Neuro-Psiquiatria
|March 1, 1995
Abstract:
A case of lymphomatous meningoencephalitis in a 23 year old Brazilian patient with HTLV-I/II associated myelopathy is reported. The patient was admitted to the hospital with a clinical picture of decreased consciousness level, stiffness of the neck and previous diagnosis of myeloneuropathy. CSF examination showed lymphocytosis with blastic cells and antibodies against HTLV-I/II.