Cranial magnetic resonance imaging findings in bacterial endocarditis: The neuroimaging spectrum of septic brain embolization demonstrated in twelve patients

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 78-84

  Bakshi, Rohit ^a,c   Wright, Peter D ^a   Kinkel, Peter R ^a   Bates, Vernice E ^a   Mechtler, Laszlo L ^a   Kamran, Sadaat ^a   Pullicino, Patrick M ^b   Sirotkin, Igor ^a   Kinkel, William R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Abscess; Brain; Endocarditis; MRI; Orbital infection; Septic emboli; Stroke

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ANOREXIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CHILD; CHILL; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; ENCEPHALITIS; FEVER; HEMIANOPIA; HEMIPARESIS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOTIC ANEURYSM; NAUSEA; NEUROIMAGING; NIGHT SWEAT; ORBIT CELLULITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SEPTIC BRAIN EMBOLIZATION; STROKE PATIENT; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SYLVIAN FISSURE; VERY ELDERLY; VOMITING;

EID: 0033009909     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jon19999278     Document Type: Article

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