Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis - Another Cause of Post Malarial Cerebellar Ataxia

Journal of Association of Physicians of India

Volumn 49, Issue JUL, 2001, Pages 756-758

  Dey, A B ^a   Trikha, Isha ^a   Banerjee, Manjari ^a   Jain, R ^a   Nagarkar, Kalpana M ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PONS; POSTVACCINAL ENCEPHALITIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, ACUTE DISSEMINATED; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PONS;

EID: 0035407860     PISSN: 00045772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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