Update on neuroimaging in infectious central nervous system disease

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 475-480

  Maschke, Matthias ^a   Kastrup, Oliver ^a   Forsting, Michael ^a   Diener, Hans Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted imaging; HIV infection; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Opportunistic central nervous system infection; Viral encephalitis

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

BRAIN LYMPHOMA; BRAIN TRANSPLANTATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DNA VIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS 71; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; FLAVIVIRUS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MEASLES VIRUS; MURRAY VALLEY ENCEPHALITIS; NIPAH VIRUS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; RABIES VIRUS; REVIEW; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DNA, VIRAL; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; WEST NILE FEVER;

EID: 4043174003     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wco.0000137540.29857.bf     Document Type: Review

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