Chronological diffusion-weighted imaging changes and mutism in the course of rotavirus-associated acute cerebellitis/cerebellopathy concurrent with encephalitis/encephalopathy

Brain and Development

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 21-27

  Kubota, Tetsuo ^a   Suzuki, Toshihiko ^a   Kitase, Yuma ^a   Kidokoro, Hiroyuki ^a   Miyajima, Yuji ^a   Ogawa, Akimasa ^a   Natsume, Jun ^b   Okumura, Akihisa ^c  

^a ANJO KOSEI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebellitis cerebellopathy; Diffusion weighted imaging; Encephalitis encephalopathy; Mutism; Rotavirus

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CREATININE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; KETONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PHENOBARBITAL; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; APNEA; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CHILD; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CYANOSIS; DENTATE NUCLEUS; DIARRHEA; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DROWSINESS; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSARTHRIA; DYSMETRIA; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROENTERITIS; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HAND TREMOR; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; MUTISM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTION; SPEECH DISORDER; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; VOMITING;

CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MUTISM; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 78650308905     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2010.04.007     Document Type: Article

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