Persistent but reversible coma in encephalitis

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 252-257

  Nagayama, Masao ^a   Matsushima, Kazushi ^a   Nagayama, Tomiko ^a   Shinohara, Yukito ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coma; Encephalitis; Nonconvulsive seizure; Persistent vegetative state

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CLONAZEPAM; CORTICOSTEROID; GANCICLOVIR; PHENYTOIN; VIDARABINE;

CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPTIC STATE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; COGNITION; CONVALESCENCE; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 23444440120     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/NCC:2:3:252     Document Type: Review

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