BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Oxygen-ozone therapy is a minimally invasive treatment
for lumbar disk herniation that exploits the biochemical properties of a gas mixture of oxygen …

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the role of proton MR spectroscopy ( 1 H-MRS) in detecting metabolic
changes in diffuse or focal lesions in the brain of patients infected with HIV. METHODS …

Cryptococcus is a ubiquitous saprophytic fungus that may become pathogenic, particularly
in immunosuppressed patients. In the CNS of AIDS patients, the incidence of this fungal …

… CF Andreula, R De Blasi and A Carella … Cosma Felice Andreula,1 Roberto De Blasi,
and Aristide Carella … Address reprint requests to CF Andreula. …

Objectives: To optimize the use of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) on cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)
for the evaluation of central nervous system (CNS) white-matter lesions that along with …

Understanding the rationale of contrast media use in MR imaging is based on knowledge of
the blood brain barrier (BBB) and the pathophysiology of infectious agents attacking the …

Leptomeningeal granulomatous radiculomyelitis is usually an extension of basal cisternal
arachnoiditis or evolves from haematogeous or contiguous spread from juxtameningeal foci, …

The phakomatoses, also called neurocutaneous syndromes, are a heterogeneous group of
congenital disorders primarily involving structures derived from the embryological …

The results are described of a retrospective multicentric CT/MR study of 141 neuro-AIDS
patients (IV group CDC classification); 114 patients were drug addicted, 13 homosexual, 8 …

Neuronal migration disorders are classified as organogenesis disturbance. This group of
disorders comprises the agyria-pachigyria complex (lissencephalia), pachigyria, …