Acyclovir responsive brain stem disease after the Ramsay Hunt syndrome

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 111-113

  Hu, Shuching ^a   Walker, Melanie ^a   Czartoski, Todd ^a   Cheng, Alan ^a   Forghani, Bagher ^b   Gilden, Donald H ^c   Garden, Gwenn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b VIRAL AND RICKETTSIAL DISEASE LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain stem; Cerebellum; Polymerase chain reaction; Ramsay hunt syndrome; Varicella

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; GABAPENTIN; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; FEMALE; HERPES ZOSTER OTICUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OTALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS EXAMINATION;

EID: 0348110608     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2003.08.011     Document Type: Article

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