Intracranial mass lesions in HIV-positive patients - The KwaZulu/Natal experience

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1284-1288

  Bhigjee, A I ^a   Naidoo, K ^a   Patel, V B ^a   Govender, D ^b  

^a Wentworth Hospital   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; LYMPHOMA; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TUBERCULOMA; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN DISEASES; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CEREBRAL; TUBERCULOSIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0033369371     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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