An autopsy case of purulent meningitis, presenting high signals in subarachnoid space and ventricles in Diffusion Weighted Images (DWIs)

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 43, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 35-37

  Oguri, Takuya ^c   Mitake, Shigehisa ^c   Yuasa, Hiroyuki ^c   Toyoda, Takanari ^c   Uematsu, Norihiko ^c   Miura, Toshiyasu ^c   Yoshida, Mari ^a   Hashizume, Yoshio ^a   Takada, Koji ^b   Ojika, Kosei ^b  

^a AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Autopsy; Diffusion weighted image (DWI); MRI; Neuropathology; Purulent meningitis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CASE REPORT; COLON CANCER; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SUBARACHNOID SPACE;

AGED; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; SUBARACHNOID SPACE;

EID: 0038317734     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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