Neuro-Behçet's/neuro-Sweet's disease presents simultaneously with severe tonsillitis, and features mimicking bacterial menigitis with skin lesions

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 1315-1317

  Tsunemi, Taiji ^a,b   Sakai, Yuki ^a   Tsunoda, Koichi ^a   Irie, Yasuhiro ^a   Wada, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a Nissan Tamagawa Hospital   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

HLA typing; Neuro Beh et's disease; Neuro sweet's disease; Pleocytosis

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; HLA ANTIGEN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PIPERACILLIN; PREDNISOLONE; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE FEBRILE NEUTROPHILIC DERMATOSIS; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BEHCET DISEASE; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; FEVER; HEADACHE; HLA SYSTEM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUTROPHIL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEOCYTOSIS; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SORE THROAT; TONSILLITIS;

ADULT; BEHCET SYNDROME; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; PREDNISOLONE; SKIN DISEASES; SWEET'S SYNDROME; TONSILLITIS;

EID: 33845679101     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1829     Document Type: Article

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