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Cytomegalovirus encephalitis and primary cerebral lymphoma mimicking Wernicke's encephalopathy
D L Brechtelsbauer1, H Urbach, T Sommer
1Neuroradiologie, Radiologische Klinik, Universität Bonn, Germany.
Neuroradiology
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
We report a 29-year-old HIV-positive patient admitted with dysarthria, ataxia and somnolence. Imaging findings were typical of Wernicke's encephalopathy, but autopsy revealed cytomegalovirus encephalitis and primary cerebral lymphoma.