Herpes encephalitis in children: MRI assessment

Turkish Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 559-566

  Çakmakçi, Handan ^a   Kovanlikaya, Arzu ^a   Obuz, Funda ^a   Kovanlikaya, Ilhami ^a   Pirnar, Tuǧrul ^a  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Brain; Computerized tomography; Herpes simplex encephalitis; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CONTRAST MEDIA; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0348168748     PISSN: 00414301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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