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A case of reversible anterior bilateral opercular syndrome (Foix-Chavany-Marie syndrome) secondary to cerebral toxoplasma abscesses is described in a patient with AIDS. The symptoms regressed following antitoxoplasma and antiedema drug therapy. Although this is the first reported AIDS-related case, the syndrome is likely to recur in AIDS sufferers in whom multifocal cerebral lesions are common.
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Grassi, M.P., Borella, M., Clerici, F. et al. Reversible bilateral opercular syndrome secondary to AIDS — associated cerebral toxoplasmosis. Ital J Neuro Sci 15, 115–117 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02340123
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