Usefulness of stereotactic biopsy and neuroimaging in management of HIV-1 Clade C associated focal brain lesions with special focus on cerebral toxoplasmosis

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 115, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 995-1002

  Shyam Babu, C ^a   Satishchandra, P ^a   Mahadevan, A ^a   Pillai Shibu, V ^a   Ravishankar, S ^a   Sidappa, N ^b   Udaykumar, R ^b   Ravi, V ^a   Shankar, S K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

CT; Focal brain lesions; HIV; MRI; Stereotactic biopsy; Toxoplasmosis

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; FOLINIC ACID; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADIAZINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLEEDING; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN STEM; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; FOCAL ENCEPHALOPATHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MEASLES INCLUSION BODY ENCEPHALITIS; MENINGITIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCYTOPENIA; PRIMARY CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM LYMPHOMA; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STEREOTACTIC BIOPSY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TUBERCULOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; AUTOPSY; BIOPSY; BRAIN; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INDIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CEREBRAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878863372     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: 18726968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2012.10.012     Document Type: Article

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