Transient downbeat nystagmus from West Nile virus encephalomyelitis

Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1599-1600

  Prasad, Sashank ^a   Brown, Mark J ^a   Galetta, Steven L ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVERGENT STRABISMUS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIPLOPIA; DYSPNEA; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FASCICULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEG PAIN; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; TREMOR; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; BRAIN STEM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGICAL REFLEX; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUADRIPLEGIA; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VIRUS INFECTION;

BRAIN STEM; DIPLOPIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; QUADRIPLEGIA; REFLEX, ABNORMAL; SACCADES; WEST NILE FEVER;

EID: 33745425635     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000216267.34612.ad     Document Type: Article

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