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Spinal Cord Toxoplasma Lesion in AIDS:MR Findings J Comput Assist Tomogr 16:817-819, Poon,T.P.,et al, 1992 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract Toxoplasma gondii is the cause of the most common opportunistic infection of the brain in AIDS but is extremely rare as the cause of a solitary lesion of the spinal cord.Symptoms are weakness of the lower limbs followed closely by paralysis unless diagnosed and treated early.We present such a case in an intravenous drug abuser with AIDS and emphasize that MRI is the diagnostic tool of choice and that the index of suspicion should be high in immunosuppressed patients.

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