VZV spinal cord infarction identified by diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI)

Neurology

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 398-400

  Orme, H T ^a   Smith, A G ^a   Nagel, M A ^b   Bert, R J ^b   Mickelson, T S ^a   Gilden, D H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; PREDNISONE;

AGED; AREFLEXIA; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FLACCID PARALYSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; INFARCTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOW BACK PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARALYSIS; PARESTHESIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD INFARCTION; THROMBOCYTHEMIA; URINE INCONTINENCE; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; ARTERIES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMANS; PARALYSIS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; TREATMENT FAILURE; URINARY BLADDER, NEUROGENIC; VASCULITIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 34547640659     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000266390.27177.7b     Document Type: Article

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