MRI features of choroid plexitis

• Published in: Neuroradiology Vol. 40; no. 5; pp. 303 - 307
• Main Authors: CHO, I. C, CHANG, K. H, KIM, Y. H, KIM, S. H, YU, I. K, HAN, M. H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin Springer 01.05.1998
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Bacterial diseases; Biological and medical sciences; Brain Edema - diagnosis; Cerebral Ventricles - pathology; Choroid Plexus - pathology; Dominance, Cerebral - physiology; Female; Human bacterial diseases; Humans; Infectious diseases; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Medical sciences; Meningitis, Cryptococcal - diagnosis; Neurologic Examination; Tropical medicine; Tuberculosis and atypical mycobacterial infections; Tuberculosis, Meningeal - diagnosis; Human; Choroid plexus; Nervous system diseases; Mycosis; Cryptococcosis; Male; Mycobacterial infection; Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging; Cerebral disorder; Case study; Infection; Tuberculosis; Characteristics; Central nervous system disease; Young adult; Bacteriosis; Medical imagery; Female; Diagnosis; Brain (vertebrata)
• ISSN: 0028-3940; 1432-1920
• DOI: 10.1007/s002340050589

Four cases of choroid plexitis of the brain (two with cryptococcosis and two with tuberculosis) are presented. The four patients showed either unilateral enlargement (3) or bilateral enlargement (1) and dense enhancement of the choroid plexus in the lateral ventricles (4) and fourth ventricle (1) in association with clinical findings of leptomeningitis. All patients had unilateral cystic dilatation of the temporal horn of the lateral ventricle presumably secondary to entrapment of the temporal horn and extensive oedema around the ipsilateral ventricle.