New onset seizures in HIV-infected patients without intracranial mass lesions or meningitis - A clinical, radiological and SPECT scan study

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 202, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 29-34

  Modi, Girish ^a,b   Modi, Mala ^a   Martinus, Ighsan ^a   Vangu, Mboyo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

HIV infection; New onset seizures; SPECT scan

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; LATENT PERIOD; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MENINGITIS; METABOLIC DISORDER; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEIZURES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 0037110425     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(02)00155-7     Document Type: Article

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