Rheumatoid Leptomeningitis: Radiological alteration of cerebral hypoperfusion and subarachnoid lesions

Internal Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 1911-1916

  Ikeda, Ken ^a   Takazawa, Takanori ^a   Ito, Hirono ^a   Ishikawa, Yuichi ^a   Miura, Ken ^a   Yoshii, Yasuhiro ^a   Kawabe, Kiyokazu ^a   Iwasaki, Yasuo ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY OMORI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral hypoperfusion; Encephalitis like symptoms; Leptomeningeal lesion; MRI; Rheumatoid leptomeningitis; SPECT

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; IOFETAMINE I 123; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONVULSION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEVER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MENINGITIS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MENINX DISORDER; MENTAL INSTABILITY; MYOCLONUS; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOID LEPTOMENINGITIS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUBARACHNOID LESION;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; ANTICONVULSANTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGITIS; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISOLONE; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 77957921374     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.49.3492     Document Type: Article

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