Clinical and neuroradiographic manifestations of Eastern equine encephalitis

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 336, Issue 26, 1997, Pages 1867-1874

  Deresiewicz, Robert L ^a,b,c   Thaler, Scott J ^a   Hsu, Liangge ^a   Zamani, Amir A ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c CHANNING LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFANT; MALE; NEURORADIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, EASTERN EQUINE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, EQUINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030951262     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199706263362604     Document Type: Article

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