Fulminating encephalopathy with perivenular demyelination and vacuolar myelopathy as the initial presentation of human immunodeficiency virus infection

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 647-650

  Silver, Brian ^a   McAvoy, Keith ^a   Mikesell, Stacey ^a   Smith, Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMYELINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DISEASE;

EID: 0030919870     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1997.00550170115023     Document Type: Article

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