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CT of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 1984 Nov-Dec;5(6):711-4. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/85043419
Bursztyn EM; Lee BC; Bauman J

Abstract: Thirty patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome were examined by computed tomography. In addition to systemic disease, these patients had a variety of neurologic symptoms and signs. Cerebral toxoplasmosis (six cases) was generally manifested by ring-enhancing lesions with surrounding decreased attenuation. Lymphoma (one case) exhibited a solid enhancing nodule, and progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (two cases) showed periventricular decreased attenuation. Atrophy (15 cases) was very common and invariably indicated a poor prognosis; the autopsy examinations of the latter cases showed degeneration of gray and white matter with features similar to cytomegalic inclusion encephalitis and subacute sclerosing encephalopathy of measles.
Keywords: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*RADIOGRAPHY Adult Atrophy/RADIOGRAPHY Brain Diseases/*RADIOGRAPHY Brain Neoplasms/RADIOGRAPHY Cerebral Cortex/PATHOLOGY Cerebral Ventricles/PATHOLOGY Human Leukoencephalopathy, Progressive Multifocal/RADIOGRAPHY Lymphoma/RADIOGRAPHY Male Middle Age *Tomography, X-Ray Computed Toxoplasmosis/RADIOGRAPHY JOURNAL ARTICLE

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