A case of primary cerebral vasculitis

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 188, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 547-549

  Herath, Sanjaya S ^a   Law, Dayna B ^a   Stride, Peter J O ^a   Heazlewood, Vernon J ^a   Gaffney, Luke S ^a  

^a REDCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; PREDNISOLONE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INFLIXIMAB; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANAMNESIS; BLINDNESS; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CANNABIS SMOKING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HEADACHE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; LETTER; MALAISE; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SMOKING; VOMITING; BIOPSY; BRAIN; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG COMBINATION; FOLLOW UP; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BIOPSY; BRAIN; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; VASCULITIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 45949105122     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01779.x     Document Type: Letter

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