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CD8 T lymphocytes encephalitis mimicking brain tumor in HIV-1 infection

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  1. Service de Neurologie, Fondation Adolphe de Rothschild, 25 rue Manin, 75019, Paris, France

    Antoine Moulignier & Raphael Depaz

  2. Service d’Imagerie Médicale, Fondation Adolphe de Rothschild, 75019, Paris, France

    Julien Savatovsky

  3. Service Central d’Anatomie et de Cytologie Pathologiques, AP-HP, Hôpital Lariboisière-Université Paris 7, 75010, Paris, France

    Marc Polivka

  4. Département d’Immunologie Clinique, Unité d’Immunopathologie Clinique, AP-HP, Hôpital Saint Louis, 75010, Paris, France

    David Boutboul

  5. Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, AP-HP, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Université Paris 7, 75018, Paris, France

    François-Xavier Lescure

  6. CDR Saint Antoine, INSERM U938, Université Paris 6-UPMC, 75005, Paris, France

    François-Xavier Lescure

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Moulignier, A., Savatovsky, J., Polivka, M. et al. CD8 T lymphocytes encephalitis mimicking brain tumor in HIV-1 infection. J. Neurovirol. 19, 606–609 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13365-013-0217-3

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