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[The value of cerebral biopsy in patients with AIDS and extensive cerebral lesions]
G Torrealba1, G Acuña, P Tagle
1Departamento de Neurología y Neurocirugía, Medicina Interna y Radiología, Escuela de Medicina, P. Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago.
Revista Medica De Chile
|December 1, 1990
Abstract:
We performed cerebral biopsy in 4 patients with AIDS and evidence of expanding intracerebral lesions. Three patients had cerebral toxoplasmosis and the fourth had Chagas encephalitis. No patient developed complications. We feel that cerebral biopsy is warranted and safe in patients with AIDS and intracerebral lesions of uncertain origin.