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Infantile HIV encephalopathy associated with cerebral and cerebellar telangiectases
Author(s) -
Boštjan Luzar,
Mara Popović,
A. Cerar
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
neuropathology and applied neurobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.538
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1365-2990
pISSN - 0305-1846
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2990.1999.00151.x
Subject(s) - telangiectases , medicine , encephalopathy , cerebellum , pathology , complication , pediatrics , telangiectasia
We describe a paediatric case of HIV encephalopathy associated with cerebral and cerebellar telangiectases. Although immunohistochemistry failed to show HIV in the walls of dilated blood vessels, or in their vicinity, brain capillary telangiectases might be an additional complication indirectly related to paediatric HIV infection.