Acute necrotising encephalopathy of childhood after exanthema subitum outside Japan or Taiwan

Neuroradiology

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 732-734

  Porto, L ^a   Lanferman, H ^a   Moller Hartmann W ^a   Jacobi, G ^a   Zanella, F ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Encephalopathy; Human herpes virus 6; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN NECROSIS; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; EXANTHEMA SUBITUM; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; JAPAN; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIWAN; TEGMENTUM; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LEIGH DISEASE; LEUKOENCEPHALITIS, ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033437172     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002340050833     Document Type: Article

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