Use of thallium-201 brain SPECT to differentiate cerebral lymphoma from toxoplasma encephalitis in AIDS patients. - Concepedia

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Use of thallium-201 brain SPECT to differentiate cerebral lymphoma from toxoplasma encephalitis in AIDS patients.

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1994

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Armando Ruiz, W.I. Ganz, M. Judith Donovan Post, Andrew Camp, Howard J. Landy, W. Mallin, George N. Sfakianakis

Abstract

Patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome who have intracranial mass lesions on MR or CT may benefit from Tl-201 brain single-photon emission CT because it can help distinguish between lymphoma and infectious lesions such as toxoplasma encephalitis.