Acute onset of somnolence and amnesia due to cerebral infarction of bilateral thalamus accompanied with tuberculous meningitis: A case report

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Volumn 79, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 469-473

  Shikama, Yusuke ^a   Kuriu, Kazuyuki ^a   Fukui, Toshiya ^a   Kawada, Hiroshi ^b   Nakajima, Hiroaki ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY NORTHERN YOKOHAMA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Cerebral infarction; Pulmonary tuberculosis; Somnolence; Thalamus; Tuberculous meningitis

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOMNOLENCE; SPUTUM EXAMINATION; THALAMUS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS;

AMNESIA; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THALAMUS; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 4644370490     PISSN: 00229776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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