West Nile virus: Case report with MR imaging findings

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1376-1378

  Rosas, Humberto ^a,b   Wippold II, Franz J ^a,b,c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RASH; SEROLOGY; SYMPTOM; THALAMUS; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VOMITING; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 0041973269     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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