Neuroboreliosis with pronounced cerebral vasculitis and multiple brain infarcts;Neuroborreliose mit ausgepragter zerebraler vaskulitis und multiplen hirninfarkten

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Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 167-171

  Schmitt, A B ^a,b   Kuker W ^a   Nacimiento, W ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Borreliosis; Cerebral vasculitis; Cyclophosphamid

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BORRELIA INFECTION; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CASE REPORT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; HEMIANOPIA; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; LYME DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULITIS;

CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0033071088     PISSN: 00282804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001150050418     Document Type: Article

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