Bilateral Rasmussen encephalitis: Postmortem documentation in a five-year-old

Epilepsia

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 127-130

  Tobias, Sharon M ^a   Robitaille, Yves ^a   Hickey, William F ^a   Rhodes, C Harker ^a   Nordgren, Richard ^a   Andermann, Frederick ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bilateral Rasmussen encephalitis biopsy autopsy proven; Epilepsia partialis continua; Epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; GANCICLOVIR;

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; AUTOPSY; BRAIN BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENCEPHALITIS; ESOPHAGUS HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; KETOGENIC DIET; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASMUSSEN SYNDROME; SEIZURE; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; VOMITING;

ATROPHY; BRAIN; CELL DEATH; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPSIA PARTIALIS CONTINUA; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; NEURONS;

EID: 0038003712     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2003.36602.x     Document Type: Article

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