Neuroimaging as a guide to predict outcomes for patients with coccidioidal meningitis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 624-627

  Arsura, Edward L ^a,b   Johnson, Royce ^a   Penrose, James ^a   Stewart, Kenneth ^b   Kilgore, William ^a   Reddy, Chakradhar M ^b   Bobba, Ravi K ^b  

^a KERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN INFARCTION; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MORTALITY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGITIS, FUNGAL; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROGNOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 13944265959     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/427215     Document Type: Article

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