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A group of 23 pediatric patients seropositive for HIV antibody were studied by computed tomography and evaluated neurodevelopmentally. Significant neurodevelopmental delays were found in over 95% of the patients studied. CT findings in six patients were normal and thirteen of 23 (57%) had prominence of the CSF spaces. Less frequent findings included calcifications in the basal ganglia and white matter. Cerebral mass lesions included one case of lymphoma and one case of hemorrhage. The CT findings in the pediatric age group differs from the adult population in that contrast enhancing inflammatory mass lesions are uncommon.
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Price, D.B., Inglese, C.M., Jacobs, J. et al. Pediatric AIDS. Pediatr Radiol 18, 445–448 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00974074
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