Procalcitonin might help in discrimination between meningeal neuro-Behçet disease and bacterial meningitis

Neurology

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 762-763

  Suzuki, N ^a   Mizuno, H ^a   Nezu, M ^a   Takai, Y ^a   Misu, T ^a   Kuroda, H ^a   Aoki, M ^a   Nakashima, I ^a   Itoyama, Y ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; MEROPENEM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PROCALCITONIN; VANCOMYCIN; CALCITONIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BEHCET DISEASE; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BLOOD; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; MENINX;

ADULT; BEHCET SYNDROME; CALCITONIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGES; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN PRECURSORS;

EID: 62349137095     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000343046.88848.76     Document Type: Article

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