Locked-in syndrome due to invasive fungal rhinosinusitis in an immunosuppressed patient

Neurologist

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 158-160

  Young, Nathan P ^a   Dyck, P James B ^a   Wijdicks, Eelco F M ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Invasive fungal rhinosinusitis; Locked in syndrome

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FACE PAIN; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LOCKED IN SYNDROME; MENINGISM; MYCOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINOSINUSITIS;

ADULT; BRAIN STEM INFARCTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYCOSES; QUADRIPLEGIA; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS;

EID: 34248336648     PISSN: 10747931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nrl.0000263701.15487.97     Document Type: Article

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