The Clinical Picture

Ring-enhancing cerebral lesions

Aram Barbaryan, MD, Jignesh Modi, MD, Wajih Raqeem, MD, Michael I. Choi, MD, Alan Frigy, MD and Aibek E. Mirrakhimov, MD
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2017, 84 (2) 104-110; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16037

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    FIGURE 1

    (A) Axial contrast-enhanced T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging showed ring-enhancing lesions (white arrows), while (B) axial T2-weighted images showed ring-enhancing lesions surrounding hyperintensity, consistent with vasogenic edema (white arrows).

  • FIGURE 2
    FIGURE 2

    Partially organizing central nervous system abscess showing necrosis with acute inflammatory cells (1), fibrosis with acute and chronic inflammatory cells (2), and the normal-appearing brain tissue (3) (hematoxylin and eosin, × 4).

  • FIGURE 3
    FIGURE 3

    Grocott-Gomori methenamine silver staining of a biopsy specimen of a right frontal brain lesion showed budding yeast forms, consistent with Histoplasma capsulatum (× 100).

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