Severe amnesia due to HHV-6 encephalitis after allogenic stem cell transplantation [8]

European Neurology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 233-234

  Visser, A M ^a   Van Doornum, G J J ^a   Cornelissen, J J ^a   Van Den Bent, M J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATING AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; DIURETIC AGENT; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUDARABINE; PREDNISOLONE; VALACICLOVIR;

ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; ADULT; ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; AMNESIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; LETTER; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MYELOABLATIVE CONDITIONING; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS INFECTION; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

AMNESIA; BRAIN; ENCEPHALITIS; HERPESVIRUS 6, HUMAN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 31744450117     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000090718     Document Type: Letter

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