Rotavirus-Associated Encephalopathy With a Reversible Splenial Lesion

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 131-133

  Fukuda, Seiji ^a   Kishi, Kazuko ^a   Yasuda, Kenji ^a   Sejima, Hitoshi ^a   Yamaguchi, Seiji ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDAZOLAM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEVER; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTAVIRUS; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; TREATMENT DURATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VOMITING;

BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDAZOLAM; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 58149231069     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2008.10.015     Document Type: Article

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