Meningitis in a patient with previously undiagnosed Crohn's disease

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 643-645

  Almeida, Nuno ^a   Portela, Francisco ^a   Oliveira, Pedro ^a   Duarte, Alexandre ^a   Gregório, Carlos ^a   Gomes, Dário ^a   Gouvela, Hermano ^a   Leitão, Maximino Correla ^a  

^a CENTRO HOSPITALAR E UNIVERSITÁRIO DE COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; VANCOMYCIN;

ABSCESS; ACUTE CONFUSION; ADULT; ANUS FISTULA; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FEVER; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LETTER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MENINGITIS; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PAPILLEDEMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRECOCCYGEAL ABSCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH FISTULA; THERAPY DELAY; THROMBOCYTOSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; VOMITING;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; COLONOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; CUTANEOUS FISTULA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; RECTAL FISTULA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67650340203     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: 15364844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ibd.20641     Document Type: Letter

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