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Screening CT of the Brain Determined by CD4 Count in HIV-Positive Patients Presenting with Headache
Cole Blease Graham III, Franz J. Wippold II, Thomas K. Pilgram, Evelyn J. Fisher and Wendy R. K. Smoker
American Journal of Neuroradiology March 2000, 21 (3) 451-454;
Cole Blease Graham III
aFrom the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (C.B.G., F.J.W., T.K.P.), Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, MO, and the Departments of Radiology (C.B.G., W.R.K.S.) and Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases (E.J.F.), Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
Franz J. Wippold II
aFrom the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (C.B.G., F.J.W., T.K.P.), Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, MO, and the Departments of Radiology (C.B.G., W.R.K.S.) and Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases (E.J.F.), Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
Thomas K. Pilgram
aFrom the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (C.B.G., F.J.W., T.K.P.), Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, MO, and the Departments of Radiology (C.B.G., W.R.K.S.) and Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases (E.J.F.), Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
Evelyn J. Fisher
aFrom the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (C.B.G., F.J.W., T.K.P.), Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, MO, and the Departments of Radiology (C.B.G., W.R.K.S.) and Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases (E.J.F.), Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
Wendy R. K. Smoker
aFrom the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (C.B.G., F.J.W., T.K.P.), Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, MO, and the Departments of Radiology (C.B.G., W.R.K.S.) and Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases (E.J.F.), Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.

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Cole Blease Graham III, Franz J. Wippold II, Thomas K. Pilgram, Evelyn J. Fisher, Wendy R. K. Smoker
Screening CT of the Brain Determined by CD4 Count in HIV-Positive Patients Presenting with Headache
American Journal of Neuroradiology Mar 2000, 21 (3) 451-454;
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