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Infant Congenital Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus Infection Computed Tomography
Head CT scan from a 4 month old child with congenital LCMV infection.
The scan reveals bilateral asymmetric regions of encephalomalacia (asterisks), strongly suggestive of a focal destructive process. Note also the periventricular calcifications (arrow), characterisitic of a prenatal viral infection.
- Computed tomography - (CT scan) or X-ray computed tomography.
- encephalomalacia - (cerebromalacia) softening of brain tissue by vascular insufficiency or other degenerative changes.
Reference
<pubmed>18052527</pubmed>| PLoS Pathog.
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