CNS Toxoplasmosis: Likelihood Ratios

Introduction: Infection of the brain parenchyma by Toxoplasma, almost exclusively seen in HIV/AIDS patients. Often presents as a ring-enhancing lesion.

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Differential Diagnoses include: Lymphoma, CNS

The likelihood ratios of findings for CNS Toxoplasmosis are listed below. See the left navigation bar to change the display.

Good Positive and Negative Likelihood Ratios

Finding	+LR	-LR	Comments, Study
Thallium-201 SPECT	10	0	However, an abstract found that thallium overdiagnoses lymphoma (5/8 patients thought to have toxoplasmosis by Thallium were found to have lymphoma by PET/CT). Differential Diagnosis: Lymphoma, CNS Study: J Nucl Med. 1996 Jul;37(7):1150-4. PMID: 8965186 J Nucl Med. 2006; 47 (Supplement 1):303P http://jnumedmtg.snmjournals.org/cgi/content/short/47/suppl_1/303P-a
PET/CT scan	inf	0.1	in patients with HIV, versus CNS lymphoma Differential Diagnosis: Lymphoma, CNS Study: Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2013 Sep;40(9):1420-7. PMID: 23685752