Hemorrhaging focal encephalitis under Fingolimod (FTY 720) treatment: A case report

Neurology

Volumn 72, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1022-1024

  Leypoldt, F ^a   Munchau A ^a   Moeller, F ^a   Bester, M ^a   Gerloff, C ^a   Heesen, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; DACLIZUMAB; ETIRACETAM; FINGOLIMOD; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; GADOLINIUM; MEROPENEM; VORICONAZOLE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PROPANEDIOL DERIVATIVE; SPHINGOSINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; BRAIN; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADULT; BRAIN; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CONTRAST MEDIA; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPSY, COMPLEX PARTIAL; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING; NECROSIS; PROPYLENE GLYCOLS; SPHINGOSINE;

EID: 64049116465     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000344567.51394.e3     Document Type: Article

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