Cerebral SPECT with thalium-201 in the differential diagnosis of focal cerebral lesions in AIDS patients;SPECT cerebral con talio-201 en el diagnostico diferencial de lesiones cerebrales focales en pacientes con sida

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 28-31

  Sanjaume, María ^a,b   Rodríguez Carballeira, Mónica ^a   Mauri, Elisabeth ^a   Martínez Lacasa, Javier ^a   García, José R ^a   Garau, Javier ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL MÚTUA DE TERRASSA   (Spain)

Author keywords

AIDS; cerebral SPECT; focal cerebral lesions

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY, PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL; LYMPHOMA, AIDS-RELATED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARIETAL LOBE; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CEREBRAL;

EID: 0031050686     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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