Thyrotoxic encephalopathy showing reversible diffusion-weighted imaging abnormalities

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1017-1023

  Fujiki, Fujio ^a   Tsuboi, Yoshio ^b   Saito, Nobuhiro ^b   Yamada, Tatsuo ^b  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Diffusion MRI; Seizure; Thyrotoxic encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RESTLESSNESS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; THYROID DISEASE; THYROTOXIC ENCEPHALOPATHY;

ACYCLOVIR; ADULT; BRAIN DISEASES; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEXAMETHASONE; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; THYROTOXICOSIS;

EID: 14544304696     PISSN: 00068969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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