Respiratory syncytial virus encephalitis with symmetrical bilateral hemispheric lesions in an adult

Neurology India

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 489-490

  Cheng, Fu Bo ^a   Li, Hua Yan ^a   Jin, Gui Hua ^a   Liu, Kang ^a   Sun, Yan Bo ^b   Wu, Wei ^a   Feng, Jia Chun ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Jilin University   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; RIBAVIRIN;

ADULT; APHASIA; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CHILD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENCEPHALITIS; FEVER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; LETTER; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTION; SEIZURE; SWELLING; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VIRUS GENOME; BRAIN; COMPLICATION; HUMAN RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VIROLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

BRAIN; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUSES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955064429     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.65519     Document Type: Letter

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