Disease course and outcome of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis is more severe in adults than in children

Multiple Sclerosis Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 441-448

  Ketelslegers, I A ^a   Visser, Ier ^a   Neuteboom, R F ^a   Boon, M ^b   Catsman Berrevoets, C E ^a   Hintzen, R Q ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

acute disseminated encephalomyelitis; adult; multiple sclerosis; paediatric

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE DISSEMINATED ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GRAY MATTER; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENINGISM; MORTALITY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NEURITIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RELAPSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 79954574455     PISSN: 13524585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1352458510390068     Document Type: Article

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