Reactivation and centripetal spread of herpes simplex virus complicating acoustic neuroma resection

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 502-504

  Jalloh, Ibrahim ^a   Guilfoyle, Mathew R ^a   Lloyd, Simon K W ^a   Macfarlane, Robert ^a   Smith, Chris ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic neuroma; Herpes simplex; Reactivation

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; LORAZEPAM; PHENYTOIN; VIRUS DNA;

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APNEA; ARTICLE; BALANCE DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CONFUSION; CONVALESCENCE; DRUG MEGADOSE; EPISODIC VERTIGO; FEVER; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEARING DISORDER; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE VOMITING; TINNITUS; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VIRUS REACTIVATION; VOMITING;

ACYCLOVIR; ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; DNA, VIRAL; ENCEPHALITIS, HERPES SIMPLEX; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE DISEASES; FEVER; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECURRENCE; SIMPLEXVIRUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE; VOMITING;

EID: 71249107862     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2008.11.002     Document Type: Article

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