Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis associated with tetanus vaccination

European Neurology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 231-232

  Bolukbasi, Okan ^a,b   Ozmenoglu, Mehmet ^a  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETANUS TOXOID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CASE REPORT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTVACCINAL ENCEPHALITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISORDER;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BRAIN; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, ACUTE DISSEMINATED; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREDNISOLONE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TETANUS TOXOID;

EID: 0033006278     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000008056     Document Type: Article

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