Decorticate, decerebrate and opisthotonic posturing and seizures in Kenyan children with cerebral malaria

Malaria Journal

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Idro, Richard ^a,b   Otieno, Godfrey ^a   White, Steven ^c   Kahindi, Anderson ^a   Fegan, Greg ^a,d   Ogutu, Bernhards ^a   Mithwani, Sadik ^a   Maitland, Kathryn ^a,e   Neville, Brian G R ^f   Newton, Charles R J C ^a,f  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^c GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN MALARIA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEREBRATION; DECORTICATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOCUMENT EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPISTHOTONUS; SEIZURE;

BRAIN STEM; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMA; DECEREBRATE STATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; KENYA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 27744531246     PISSN: 14752875     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-4-57     Document Type: Article

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