Case 38-2003: A 12-Year-Old Girl with Fever and Coma

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 349, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 2341-2349

  Warren Jr , H Shaw ^a,b   Gonzalez, R Gilberto ^a,b   Tian, Di ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ACTIVATED PROTEIN C; ADENOSINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DROTRECOGIN; INSULIN; MANNITOL; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; PENICILLIN G; PENTOBARBITAL; RIFAMPICIN; THIOPENTAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN HERNIA; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG OVERDOSE; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERVENTILATION; INTOXICATION; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; REYE SYNDROME; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VACCINATION; BRAIN; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; FATALITY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG EDEMA; SEPSIS; VASCULARIZATION; VIROLOGY; VOMITING;

BRAIN; BRAIN EDEMA; CHILD; COMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PULMONARY EDEMA; SEPSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VOMITING;

EID: 0642283968     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc030033     Document Type: Article

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