Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis after mixed malaria infection (plasmodium falciparum and plasmodium vivax) with MRI closely simulating multiple sclerosis

Neurologist

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 276-278

  Mani, Siddhartha ^a   Mondal, Soumya Sarathi ^a   Guha, Goutam ^a   Gangopadhyay, Subhabrata ^a   Pani, Adyapad ^a   Baksi, Sumanta Das ^a   Sau, Debjoy ^a   Bhattacharjee, Koushik ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

(ADEM); malaria; MRI; multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ARTESUNATE; DOXYCYCLINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE DISSEMINATED ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; FEMALE; FEVER; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; JAUNDICE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MIXED INFECTION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALLOR; PARAPLEGIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGOR; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPLENOMEGALY; URINE RETENTION;

ADULT; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, ACUTE DISSEMINATED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 80052613066     PISSN: 10747931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NRL.0b013e3182173668     Document Type: Article

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