Adult-onset MELAS presenting as herpes encephalitis

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 241-243

  Sharfstein, Sophia R ^a   Gordon, Mark Forrest ^a   Libman, Richard D ^a   Malkin, Elfrida S ^b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEMIANOPIA; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; MELAS SYNDROME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE;

AGE OF ONSET; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES ZOSTER OPHTHALMICUS; HUMANS; MELAS SYNDROME; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0033020196     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.56.2.241     Document Type: Article

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