Primary angiitis of the CNS - An enigma that needs world-wide efforts to be solved: EDITORIAL

European Journal of Neurology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 10-11

  Berlit, P ^a  

^a ALFRIED KRUPP KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE;

ANGIOGRAPHY; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BEHCET DISEASE; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; BLEEDING; BORRELIA INFECTION; BRAIN DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ECLAMPSIA; EDITORIAL; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HEADACHE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HYPERTENSION; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRAINE; NEOPLASM; NEUROSYPHILIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PRIMARY ANGIITIS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SEIZURE; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TYPHUS; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VASCULITIS; VASOCONSTRICTION; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; VASCULITIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 57449092883     PISSN: 13515101     EISSN: 14681331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-1331.2008.02348.x     Document Type: Editorial

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