Clinical presentation of childhood neuroborreliosis; neurological examination may be normal

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 95, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 910-914

  Broekhuijsen van Henten, Dorien M ^a   Braun, Kees P J ^b   Wolfs, Tom F W ^b  

^a ISALA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; DOXYCYCLINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIAL NERVE INJURY; FACE WEAKNESS; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MALE; NECK PAIN; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; WEAKNESS;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CEFTRIAXONE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LYME NEUROBORRELIOSIS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78349294118     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2009.176529     Document Type: Article

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