December 2002: 19-Year old male with febrile illness after jet ski accident

Brain Pathology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 237-238

  Gyori, Eva ^a  

^a Miami Dade Medical Examiner Department   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; SPORT INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AMEBIASIS; ANIMALS; ATHLETIC INJURIES; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGISM; MENINGITIS, ASEPTIC; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NAEGLERIA; NEAR DROWNING;

EID: 0037393708     PISSN: 10156305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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