Clinical and radiological features of childhood cerebral infarction following varicella zoster virus infection

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 417-422

  Miravet, Elena ^a   Danchaivijitr, Nasuda ^b   Basu, Helen ^a   Saunders, Dawn E ^b   Ganesan, Vijeya ^a,c  

^a Neurology Department   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute of Child Health ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHOREA MINOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEUROIMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SLURRED SPEECH; SPEECH DISORDER; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VISUAL DISORDER; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE; WEAKNESS;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, VIRAL; ENCEPHALITIS, VARICELLA ZOSTER; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFANT; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; RECURRENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 34249775528     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2007.00417.x     Document Type: Article

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