A case of agammaglobulinemia with chronic enteroviral meningomyelitis

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 306-311

  Ito, Nobuo ^a,b   Kokubo, Yasumasa ^a   Narita, Yugo ^a   Naito, Yutaka ^a   Kuzuhara, Shigeki ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Suzuka Chuo General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

agammaglobulinemia; enterovirus; meningitis; myelitis

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGITIS; MYELITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENTEROVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0029888813     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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