Bickerstaff's brainstem encephalitis: Can it recur?

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 277-279

  Sharma, Vijay ^a   Chan, Y C ^a   Ong, ^a   Teoh, H L ^a   Wilder Smith, E P ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bickerstaff's brain stem encephalitis; Guillain Barr syndrome; Miller Fisher syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; ENCEPHALITIS; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS INFECTION;

BRAIN STEM; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; GANGLIOSIDES; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILLER FISHER SYNDROME; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PARALYSIS; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; RECURRENCE;

EID: 33644543075     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2005.01.011     Document Type: Article

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