Susac syndrome in a young child

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 710-713

  Eluvathingal Muttikkal, Thomas Jose ^a   Vattoth, Surjith ^b   Keluth Chavan, Venugopal Naik ^a  

^a MUBARAK AL KABEER HOSPITAL   (Kuwait)

^b Division of Cardiology   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Brain; Child; Corpus callosum; Microangiopathy; MRI; Susac syndrome

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OLIGOCLONAL BAND;

ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; EYE PAIN; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MIGRAINE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUTROPHILIA; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; SCHOOL CHILD; SLURRED SPEECH; SUSAC SYNDROME; TINNITUS; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VOMITING;

BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RETINAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; SYNDROME;

EID: 34250658898     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: 14321998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-007-0492-3     Document Type: Article

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