Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis in children. A descriptive study in Tehran, Iran

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 396-399

  Samileh, Noorbakhsh ^a   Hassan, Tonekaboni ^b  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DEMYELINATION; DISEASE COURSE; DYSARTHRIA; ENCEPHALITIS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFECTION CONTROL; IRAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MEASLES; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENINGISM; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; RASH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RUBELLA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VACCINATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, ACUTE DISSEMINATED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 34247209228     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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