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a smell "like burning hair"

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insight
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09/05/08 - 12:50 PM

A 26-year-old HIV-positive woman is brought into the emergency room after she is found lying unresponsive in the street. She has no recollection of what had occurred. She reports sensing a smell "like burning hair" and then blacking out. A medical history reveals that she has had a fever and a headache for the past week. An MRI of the brain shows multiple ring-enhancing lesions. Which of the following is the most likely cause of her symptoms?

A. Cryptococcus neoformans
B. Cryptosporidium
C. Cytomegalovirus
D. Pneumocystis carinii
E. Toxoplasma gondii

Eagle_303
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09/05/08 - 01:07 PM

Toxoplasma Gondi

Mass lesions in t he temporal lobe may give rise to Temporal lobe epilepsy

hitesh
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09/05/08 - 01:17 PM

Eagle_303 wrote:

Mass lesions in t he temporal lobe may give rise to Temporal lobe epilepsy

Nice

.. Didnt know that..

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insight
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09/05/08 - 01:28 PM

nightflight1945
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09/06/08 - 01:07 AM

E. Toxoplasma gondii

multiple ring-enhancing lesions in an HIV patient is Toxo till proves otherwise.

hitesh
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09/06/08 - 01:10 AM

yea.. the question was easy.. but the patient with toxo presenting with parosmia, is kinda cool.. grin

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ngaybinhyen
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09/06/08 - 02:24 AM

thanks, guys smiling face

GOGETA
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09/07/08 - 01:09 PM

HSV could also go into the temporal lobe and give you the same thing, right?

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