Meningitis;Meningitis

Rechtsmedizin

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 121-130

  Tsokos, M ^a   Torke, A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Medico legal aspects; Meningitis; Neisseria meningitidis; Postmortem diagnostics; Waterhouse Friderichsen syndrome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BRAIN; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL INFILTRATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMORBIDITY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GERMANY; GRANULOCYTE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFLAMMATION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LEPTOMENINX; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MENINGITIS; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MORPHOLOGY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERFUSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTTRAUMATIC COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; VACCINATION; VASODILATATION;

EID: 33745202238     PISSN: 09379819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00194-006-0382-2     Document Type: Article

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