Non-herpetic acute limbic encephalitis: Cerebrospinal fluid cytokines and magnetic resonance imaging findings

Internal Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 42-48

  Asaoka, Kyoko ^a   Shoji, Hiroshi ^a   Nishizaka, Shinya ^a   Ayabe, Mitsuyoshi ^a   Abe, Toshi ^a   Ohori, Nobuhira ^b   Ichiyama, Takashi ^c   Eizuru, Yoshito ^d  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute limbic encephalitis; Herpes simplex encephalitis; Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis; Polymerase chain reaction; Serologic testing

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; PREDNISOLONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FEVER; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PLEOCYTOSIS; SEIZURE; VIRUS INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CYTOKINES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, VIRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS, HERPES SIMPLEX; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-6; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 1142299541     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.43.42     Document Type: Article

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