Varicella-zoster ventriculo-encephalitis and spinal cord infarction in a patient with AIDS

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 202-205

  Kenyon, Lawrence C ^a   Dulaney, Eugene ^a   Montone, Kathleen T ^a   Goldberg, Herbert I ^a   Liu, Grant T ^a   Lavi, Ehud ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AIDS; Human immunodeficiency virus; Spinal cord infarction; Varicella zoster virus; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

ABDUCENS NERVE; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; HUMAN; INFARCTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VASCULITIS; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AGED; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; INFARCTION; MALE; SPINAL CORD; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0029933673     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010050509     Document Type: Article

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