Prolonged unilateral vasodilatation and brain edema in fulminant hepatic failure, associated with symptomatic seizure

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 157-160

  Inamasu, Joji ^a   Nakamura, Yoshiki ^a   Yamamoto, Shinichiro ^a   Sakamoto, Namiko ^a   Saito, Ryoichi ^a   Horiguchi, Takashi ^a   Ichikizaki, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION TOKYO MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain edema; Cerebral blood flow; Fulminant hepatic failure; Hyperperfusion; Seizure; Vasodilatation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VASODILATATION;

BRAIN; BRAIN EDEMA; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SEIZURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASODILATION;

EID: 0036207240     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-8467(02)00007-0     Document Type: Article

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