Cushing's Triad in Pneumococcal Meningitis Due to Brainstem Ischemia: Early Detection by Diffusion-Weighted MRI

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 276-278

  Haarman, Eric G ^a   Vermeulen, R Jeroen ^a   van Furth, A Marceline ^a   Verbeke, Jonathan I M L ^a   Plötz, Frans B ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION;

BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN STEM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INFANT; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 40749140323     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2007.10.015     Document Type: Article

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