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A report, "Eccentric target sign in cerebral toxoplasmosis: neuropathological correlate to the imaging feature," is newly published data in Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.According to recent research published in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, "Cerebral toxoplasmosis remains one of the most common focal brain lesions in patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Diagnosis is a challenge because on cranial imaging it closely mimics central nervous system lymphoma, primary and metastatic central nervous system (CNS) tumors, or other intracranial infections like tuberculoma or abscesses."
"A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) feature on postcontrast T1-weighted sequences considered pathognomonic of toxoplasmosis is the 'eccentric target sign.' The pathological correlate of this imaging sign has been speculative. Herein we correlate the underlying histopathology to the MR feature of eccentric target sign in a patient with autopsy-proven HIV/AIDS-related cerebral toxoplasmosis," wrote G.G. Kumar and colleagues, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences.
The researchers concluded: "The central enhancing core of the target seen on MRI was produced by a leash of inflamed vessels extending down the length of the sulcus that was surrounded by concentric zones of necrosis and a wall composed of histiocytes and proliferating blood vessels, with impaired permeability producing the peripheral enhancing rim."
Kumar and colleagues published their study in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Eccentric target sign in cerebral toxoplasmosis: neuropathological correlate to the imaging feature. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2010;31(6):1469-72).
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