Guillain-Barre and virus-associated hemophagocytic syndromes contracted simultaneously following Epstein-Barr viral infection

Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 870-871

  Kaneko, Masaru ^a   Kuwabara, S ^a   Hatakeyama, A ^a   Fukutake, T ^a   Hattori, T ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYTOKINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOPENIA; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REACTIVATION; BONE MARROW; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HISTIOCYTOSIS; PATHOLOGY; POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AGED; BONE MARROW; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HISTIOCYTOSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS; MALE; POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 0030612458     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.49.3.870     Document Type: Article

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