Steroid-responsive encephalomyelitis in childhood

Neurology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1980, Pages 481-486

  Pasternak, Joseph F ^a   De Vivo, Darryl C ^a   Prensky, Arthur L ^a  

^a ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; PREDNISONE; STEROID; VACCINE;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONVULSION; DRUG THERAPY; ENCEPHALITIS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; INFANT; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MYELITIS; PARAINFECTIOUS ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; STUPOR; THERAPY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEXAMETHASONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PREDNISONE; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 0018896383     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.30.5.481     Document Type: Article

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