Post-malarial cerebellar ataxia in adult Sudanese patients

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 570-572

  Abdulla, M N ^a,b   Sokrab, T E O ^a   Zaidan, Z A ^b   Siddig, H E ^a,b   Ali, M E A ^b  

^a Shaab Teaching Hospital   (Sudan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISOLONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SUDAN; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISOLONE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUDAN; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031240094     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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