Epilepsia partialis continua as an atypical presentation of cat scratch disease in a young adult

Neurology

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1815-1816

  Nowakowski, Grzegorz S ^a,b   Katz, Amiram ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CAT SCRATCH DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPEECH DISORDER; TONGUE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037058804     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000036620.27344.E9     Document Type: Article

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