Approach to an Intracranial Mass in Patients With HIV.
Isabel M ElicerPublished in: Current neurology and neuroscience reports (2020)
Multimodal brain MRI and MRI spectroscopy (MRS) often provide the most valuable information in the study of focal masses among people with HIV/AIDS. Brain biopsy appears safe and provides high diagnostic yields in these patients. Among patients with HIV/AIDS who present with space-occupying intracranial lesions, brain MRI and MRS are useful tests. However, in cases of diagnostic uncertainty, brain biopsy is a safe procedure and should be performed. The role of metabolic studies like 201Th-SPECT or PET is useful in the detection of primary central nervous system lymphoma.
Keyphrases
- hiv aids
- antiretroviral therapy
- contrast enhanced
- white matter
- resting state
- magnetic resonance imaging
- human immunodeficiency virus
- hiv infected
- ultrasound guided
- hiv positive
- end stage renal disease
- cerebral ischemia
- computed tomography
- fine needle aspiration
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- high resolution
- multiple sclerosis
- magnetic resonance
- diffuse large b cell lymphoma
- brain injury
- pet ct
- minimally invasive
- blood brain barrier
- cerebrospinal fluid
- positron emission tomography
- subarachnoid hemorrhage
- single molecule
- hiv testing
- optic nerve
- men who have sex with men
- loop mediated isothermal amplification