Educational objective: Patients with advanced AIDS are at incr | Uworld | Step 2ck

Educational objective: Patients with advanced AIDS are at increased risk for malignancy. Primary CNS lymphoma is an AIDS-defining malignancy associated with the expression of Epstein-Barr virus oncogenes, which can often be identified in the cerebrospinal fluid. MRI of the brain generally shows a solitary, irregular, nonhomogenous ring-enhancing mass.