Mollaret meningitis associated with an intraspinal epidermoid cyst

Pediatrics

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Gao, Baoqin ^a,d   Yang, Jun ^a   Zhuang, Shougang ^b   Deng, Yaxian ^a   Yang, Weili ^a   Yu, Yazhen ^a   Wang, Yongjun ^a   Luo, Lin ^c   Dai, Ke ^c  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d NONE   (China)

Author keywords

Epidermoid cyst; Mollaret meningitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; DEXAMETHASONE; MANNITOL;

ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDERMOID CYST; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRASPINAL EPIDERMOID CYST; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CYSTS; CHILD; EPIDERMAL CYST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, ASEPTIC; RECURRENCE; SPINAL CORD DISEASES;

EID: 34447124354     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-2053     Document Type: Article

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