Prolonged dysphagia due to Listeria-rhombencephalitis with brainstem abscess and acute polyradiculoneuritis

Journal of Infection

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Smiatacz, Tomasz ^a   Kowalik, Maciej Michal ^a   Hlebowicz, Maria ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Acute polyradiculoneuritis; Brainstem abscess; Dysphagia; Listeria monocytogenes; Rhombencephalitis

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMPICILLIN; ASCORBIC ACID; CEFTRIAXONE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; HUMAN IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MANNITOL; OMEPRAZOLE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMYELINATING NEUROPATHY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSMETRIA; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTRONEUROGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; LABORATORY TEST; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MALE; NEURITIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RHOMBENCEPHALON; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AMPICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN STEM; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ENCEPHALITIS; GENTAMICINS; HUMANS; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; MALE; POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33744531055     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2005.08.034     Document Type: Article

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