Strokes caused by infection in the tropics;Ictus de causa infecciosa en el trópico

Revista de Neurologia

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 755-763

  Carod Artal, Francisco Javier ^a  

^a SARAH NETWORK OF REHABILITATION HOSPITALS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chagas; Cysticercosis; Gnathostomiasis; Malaria; Stroke; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ARENAVIRUS; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN MALARIA; CEREBELLUM INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHAGAS DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FLAVIVIRUS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; INFECTION; MALARIA; MORBIDITY; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TROPICAL DISEASE; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULITIS; WHITE MATTER; ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; THELAZIA; TROPIC CLIMATE; TROPICAL MEDICINE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHAGAS DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GNATHOSTOMA; HEMORRHAGIC FEVERS, VIRAL; HUMANS; MALARIA; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; RISK FACTORS; TROPICAL CLIMATE; TROPICAL MEDICINE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

EID: 34948814167     PISSN: 02100010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.33588/rn.4412.2006568     Document Type: Review

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