The role of nuclear medicine in the investigation of patients with AIDS.
HIV-positive patients are susceptible to both opportunistic infection and malignant disease. Radionuclide techniques can help in the detection of the occult infection and in the differentiation between infection and tumour.
Prvulovich
E M
EM
Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College London School of Medicine, Middlesex Hospital.
Buscombe
J R
JR
Miller
R F
RF
D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005334:Fever / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006679:HIV Seropositivity / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging