Infectious vasculopathy of intracranial large- And medium-sized vessels in neurological intensive care unit: A clinico-radiological study

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 369-374

  Katchanov, J ^a   Siebert, E ^a   Klingebiel, R ^a   Endres, M ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Imaging; Meningitis; Vasculitis; Vasculopathy; VZV

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; DEXAMETHASONE; MEROPENEM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G;

ACUTE BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTIOUS INTRACRANIAL VASCULOPATHY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOCKED IN SYNDROME; LYME DISEASE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEUROSYPHILIS; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; SOMNOLENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP C; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STUPOR; SUPRANUCLEAR FACIAL PALSY; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

ADULT; AGED; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ENCEPHALITIS, VARICELLA ZOSTER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTENSIVE CARE; LYME NEUROBORRELIOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROSYPHILIS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULITIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 77955093730     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-010-9335-4     Document Type: Article

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