A case of Neuro-Behçet disease resembling bacterial meningitis

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 750-753

  Nezu, Masahiro ^a   Suzuki, Naoki ^a   Mizuno, Hideki ^a   Takai, Yoshiki ^a   Misu, Tatsuro ^a   Aoki, Masashi ^a   Nakashima, Ichiro ^a   Itoyama, Yasuto ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacterial meningitis; Neuro Beh et disease; Procalcitonin

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HLA B ANTIGEN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PROCALCITONIN; STEROID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CALCITONIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ADULT; APHTHOUS ULCER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BEHCET DISEASE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; DROWSINESS; EMERGENCY CARE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEMISPHERE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MENINX DISORDER; MYELITIS; NEURO BEHCET DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAPILLEDEMA; PLEOCYTOSIS; POLYMORPHONUCLEAR CELL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PUTAMEN; RASH; RECURRENT DISEASE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UVEITIS; BLOOD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BEHCET SYNDROME; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALCITONIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PULSE THERAPY, DRUG; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 59449099603     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5692/clinicalneurol.48.750     Document Type: Article

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