STEREOTAXIC BIOPSY IN CEREBRAL-LESIONS OF AIDS

Citation
Pl. Gildenberg et al., STEREOTAXIC BIOPSY IN CEREBRAL-LESIONS OF AIDS, Acta neurochirurgica, 1993, pp. 68-70
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery,Neurosciences
Journal title
ISSN journal
00016268
Year of publication
1993
Supplement
58
Pages
68 - 70
Database
ISI
SICI code
0001-6268(1993):<68:SBICOA>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
The experiences with stereotactic biopsies in 121 patients with AIDS c ompared to 142 non-AIDS patients are presented. In the AIDS group most of the tumors (38) were lymphomas (34). Other frequent diagnoses have been progressive multifocal leukencephalopathy (20) and toxoplasmosis (16)-although most AIDS patients already had been treated for toxopla smosis, and those who responded to it did not undergo biopsy. Initiall y among the AIDS patients there was a tendency of delayed intracranial bleeding (4 cases, 3 of them fatal). After initiation of a prophylact ic coagulopathy protocol no other such complications have occurred in the following 70 biopsies.