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The experiences with stereotactic biopsies in 121 patients with AIDS compared 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 toxoplasmosis, and those who responded to it did not undergo biopsy.
Initially among the AIDS patients there was a tendency of delayed intracranial bleeding (4 cases, 3 of them fatal). After initiation of a prophylactic coagulopathy protocol no other such complications have occurred in the following 70 biopsies.
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Gildenberg, P.L., Langford, L., Kim, J.H., Trujillo, R. (1993). Stereotactic Biopsy in Cerebral Lesions of AIDS. In: Meyerson, B.A., Broggi, G., Martin-Rodriguez, J., Ostertag, C., Sindou, M. (eds) Advances in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery 10. Acta Neurochirurgica, vol 58. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-9297-9_15
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