Adult onset subacute sclerosing panencephalitis: Clinical profile of 39 patients from a tertiary care centre

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 630-633

  Prashanth, L K ^a   Taly, A B ^a   Ravi, V ^a   Sinha, S ^a   Arunodaya, G R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHISOPRINOL; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; STEROID; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MEASLES; MEDICAL RECORD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBACUTE SCLEROSING PANENCEPHALITIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; ADOLESCENT; AGE; BRAIN; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IMMUNOLOGY; INDIA; MEASLES VIRUS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TOPOGRAPHY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BRAIN; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBACUTE SCLEROSING PANENCEPHALITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 33646945689     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2005.085829     Document Type: Article

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