Stroke or encephalitis?

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 401-404

  Townend, Bradley S ^a,b   Hanson, Julian A ^a   Sturm, Jonathan W ^a   Whyte, Scott ^a  

^a GOSFORD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Encephalitis; Herpes simplex; Stroke; Virus

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SPEECH DISORDER; STROKE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIRUS DETECTION;

EID: 28544432194     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2005.00765.x     Document Type: Article

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