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From: Chronic meningitis in adults: a comparison between neurotuberculosis and neurobrucellosis

Fig.Ā 2

Neuroimaging findings of patients with neurotuberculosis or neurobrucellosis. Brain MRI of a 19-year-old man with neurobrucellosis presented with multiple cranial nerve palsies, papilledema, and left hemiparesis. Coronal T1/postcontrast image shows enhancing lesion in right basal ganglia, axial FLAIR image shows high signal intensity in right basal ganglia, and sagittal T2 weighted image shows high signal intensity in right basal ganglia and cerebral peduncle (orange arrows) (A). Brain MRI of a 16-year-old girl with TB meningoencephalitis presented with headache, confusion, and multiple cranial nerve palsies. T2, FLAIR, and T1/postcontrast images show multiple ring-enhancing lesions with vasogenic edema (blue arrows) (B). Brain MRI of a 20-year-old woman with brucella meningitis presented with pseudotumor cerebri-like presentation. T1, FLAIR, and T1/postcontrast images show non-specific hyper signal foci without edema or enhancement in the centrum semiovale (purple arrows) (C). Brain MRI of a 35-year-old man with brucella meningitis. Axial T2 weighted and FLAIR images show non-enhancing small subcortical and periventricular high signal intensities (red arrows) (D). Brain MRI of a 34-year-old woman with TB meningoencephalitis presented with headache, altered consciousness, seizures, multiple cranial nerve palsies, and right hemiparesis. DWI (Diffusion weighted image) shows high signal lesion in left side of pons and ADC (apparent diffusion coefficient) image shows correlation between ADC and DWI image (restriction) (white arrows) (E). FLAIR, and T1/postcontrast images show hydrocephalus with trans ependymal edema and leptomeningeal enhancement (green arrows) (F)

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