Central Nervous System Infections

Seminars in Roentgenology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 62-91

  Rumboldt, Zoran ^a   Thurnher, Majda M ^b   Gupta, Rakesh K ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN SPONGIOSIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CYSTICERCOSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENCEPHALITIS; ENTEROVIRUS; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LYME DISEASE; MENINGITIS; MYCOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSYPHILIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; SPIROCHETE INFECTION; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNGAL INFECTIONS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM PARASITIC INFECTIONS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VIRAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRION DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33947535444     PISSN: 0037198X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ro.2006.08.012     Document Type: Article

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