Rapid differential diagnosis of cerebral toxoplasmosis and primary central nervous system lymphoma by thallium-201 SPECT

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1150-1154

  Lorberboym, Mordechai ^a   Estok, Lois ^b   Machac, Josef ^b   Germano, Isabelle ^b   Sacher, Michael ^b   Feldman, Richard ^b   Wallach, Fran ^b   Dorfman, David ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; central nervous system lymphoma; retention index; thallium 201; toxoplasmosis

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN LYMPHOMA; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; ISOTOPE TRACING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; BIOPSY; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, AIDS-RELATED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CEREBRAL;

EID: 0029757169     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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