Rapid Neurologic Deterioration in a Patient with HIV Infection

AIDS Reader

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 63-66+69

  Ball, Susan C ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Brain lesions; Demyelinating disease; HIV AIDS

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN LYMPHOMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DEMENTIA; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTINFECTION ENCEPHALITIS; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; BRAIN DISEASES; DEMYELINATING AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES, CNS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 1242291880     PISSN: 10530894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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