Subacute Encephalopathy: Clinical Features, Laboratory Data, Neuroimaging, and Outcomes

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 111-117

  Okumura, Akihisa ^a,b   Kidokoro, Hiroyuki ^b   Itomi, Kazuya ^b   Maruyama, Koichi ^b   Kubota, Tetsuo ^b   Kondo, Yoko ^b   Itomi, Seiko ^b   Uemura, Naoko ^b   Natsume, Jun ^b   Watanabe, Kazuyoshi ^c   Morishima, Tsuneo ^d  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c AICHI SHUKUTOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; DEXAMETHASONE; DIAZEPAM; GLYCEROL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MANNITOL; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDAZOLAM; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DISEASE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIRIUM; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEXAMETHASONE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEIGH DISEASE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; SEIZURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 38149108348     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2007.09.009     Document Type: Article

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