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T1 Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain shows bilateral ring enhancing lesions with extensive surrounding vasogenic edema and necrotic centers.
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F1
Her renal and liver function tests were normal and magnetic resonance imaging of the brain (figure 1) showed multiple ring enhancing lesions.
Image was taken at 1000x magnification from a brain biopsy section stained with hemotoxylin and eosin (H & E).
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A brain biopsy was performed (figure 2A and B). A biopsy of brain tissue showed the rod-shaped kinetoplasts that are a key diagnostic morphologic feature that separates the amastigotes of T. cruzi (and Leishmania spp) from Toxoplasma and Histoplasma (figure 2A and B).