A patient with rubella encephalitis and status epilepticus

Minerva Pediatrica

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 141-144

  Gulen F ^a,b   Cagliyan E ^a   Aydinok, Y ^a   Ozen S ^a   Yildiz, B ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Child; Encephalitis; Rubella; Status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; MANNITOL; MIDAZOLAM; PHENYTOIN;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPILEPTIC STATE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RUBELLA; SCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; RUBELLA; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 42049088729     PISSN: 00264946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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