PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Levy, Robert M.
AU  - Rosenbloom, Scott
AU  - Perrett, Lance V.
TI  - Neuroradiologic Findings in AIDS: A Review of 200 Cases
DP  - 1986 Sep 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 833--839
VI  - 7
IP  - 5
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/7/5/833.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/7/5/833.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.1986 Sep 01; 7
AB  - The radiologic studies of 200 consecutive AIDS patients with neurologic symptoms were evaluated to determine their diagnostic specificity and prognostic value. Of 81 patients with initially normal CT scans, four (5%) later developed progressive neurologic illness. Of 75 patients with CT evidence of diffuse cerebral atrophy, 12 (16%) later developed CT abnormalities or had postmortem CNS disease. CT scans showed mass lesions initially in 44 patients and later in an additional seven patients. Although toxoplasma gondii infection was the most frequent cause of these lesions, the CT characteristics of cerebral toxoplasmosis are too nonspecific to warrant diagnosis without biopsy. Preliminary evidence suggests that MRI may be more sensitive than CT in detecting intracranial disease in patients with AIDS.