Rhombencephalitis: A series of 97 patients

Medicine

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 256-261

  Moragas, Mireia ^a   Martínez Yélamos, Sergio ^a   Majós, Carles ^b   Fernández Viladrich, Pedro ^a   Rubio, Francisco ^a   Arbizu, Txomin ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b Institut de Diagnòstic Per la Imatge   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BEHCET DISEASE; BRUCELLOSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; ENCEPHALITIS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; JC VIRUS; LISTERIOSIS; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROIMAGING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PLEOCYTOSIS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSING POLYCHONDRITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RHOMBENCEPHALITIS; SPAIN; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TUBERCULOSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHOMBENCEPHALON; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SPAIN; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959803389     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0b013e318224b5af     Document Type: Review

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