Sisters with clinically mild encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion (MERS)-like features; Familial MERS?

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 290, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 153-156

  Imamura, Takuji ^a   Takanashi, Jun ichi ^b   Yasugi, Jun ^a   Terada, Hitoshi ^c   Nishimura, Akira ^a  

^a PL General Hospital   (Japan)

^b KAMEDA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c TOHO UNIVERSITY SAKURA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clinically mild encephalitis encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion (MERS); Diffusion; Encephalopathy; Familial; Reversible; Splenium

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDAZOLAM; PARACETAMOL;

ACUTE BRAIN DISEASE; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES, METABOLIC; BRAIN EDEMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; JAPAN; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; SIBLINGS; SYNDROME; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 74849132984     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2009.12.004     Document Type: Article

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