An attack of acute neuro-Behçet's disease during the course of chronic progressive neuro-Behçet's disease: Report of two cases

Modern Rheumatology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 621-626

  Matsui, Toshimichi ^a   Ishida, Takashi ^a   Tono, Toshihiro ^a   Yoshida, Takuhiro ^b   Sato, Shun Ichi ^b   Hirohata, Shunsei ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGANO RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid; IL 6; Infliximab; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

HLA B51 ANTIGEN; INFLIXIMAB; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESALAZINE; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BABINSKI REFLEX; BASAL GANGLION; BEHCET DISEASE; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN STEM; CAPSULA INTERNA; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE COURSE; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSARTHRIA; GAIT DISORDER; HEADACHE; HEMIPLEGIA; HORNER SYNDROME; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; INTESTINE ULCER; LIMB WEAKNESS; MALE; MELENA; MESENCEPHALON; MIOSIS; MYOCLONUS; NEURO BEHCET DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESIS; PATHOGENESIS; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; PTOSIS; THALAMUS; URINE INCONTINENCE; UVEITIS; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ATROPHY; BEHCET SYNDROME; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN STEM; CHRONIC DISEASE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 78650517558     PISSN: 14397595     EISSN: 14397609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10165-010-0332-4     Document Type: Article

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