Two patients with unusual forms of varicella-zoster virus vasculopathy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 347, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 1500-1503

  Gilden, Donald H ^a,e   Lipton, Howard L ^b   Wolf, James S ^c   Akenbrandt, William ^b   Smith, John E ^a   Mahalingam, Ravi ^a   Forghani, Bagher ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERITIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VASCULAR DISEASE; VIRUS ACTIVATION; VIRUS INFECTION;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BLINDNESS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CILIARY ARTERIES; FEMALE; HERPES ZOSTER; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; OPTIC NEUROPATHY, ISCHEMIC;

EID: 0037038232     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa020841     Document Type: Article

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