Butterfly lesion on MRI: Cryptococcus meningoencephalitis with unusual imaging in a patient with AIDS

Abstract

Abstract In immunocompromised patients, including patients with AIDS, with neurologic complaints, we propose including Cryptococcus meningoencephalitis in the differential diagnoses when the butterfly pattern is encountered on MRI.

Keywords

• AIDS
• butterfly lesion
• cryptococcus
• meningoencephalitis
• neurology