Oligodendroglioma in a patient with AIDS: case report and review of the literature Oligodendroglioma en un paciente con sida: reporte de caso y revisión de la literatura

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Marcelo E. Corti, Claudio Yampolsky, Humberto Metta, Mario Valerga, Gustavo Sevlever, Andrés Capizzano
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Portuguese
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2004
• Subjects: Focal brain mass; Oligodendroglioma; Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; AIDS; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Alta; Sida; Derecho; Larga; Colina
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46652004000400004; https://doaj.org/article/1e4b2b73dd5a49ca98e59192fa78cf27

In the last years, new techniques of neuroimages and histopathological methods have been added to the management of cerebral mass lesions in patients with AIDS. Stereotactic biopsy is necessary when after 14 days of empirical treatment for Toxoplasma gondii encephalitis there is no clinical or neuro...