Rhombencephalitis - brainstem encephalitis

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 543-552

  Jubelt, Burk ^a   Mihai, Cornelia ^b   Li, Terrence M ^b   Veerapaneni, Padma ^b  

^a SYRACUSE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmune; Beh et disease; Enterovirus (EV); Herpes simplex virus; Infectious; Listeria; Paraneoplastic syndromes; Rhombencephalitis, brainstem encephalitis

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ALPHA INTERFERON; AMPICILLIN; AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; GANCICLOVIR; GENTAMICIN; HU ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LINEZOLID; METHOTREXATE; PENICILLIN G; RITUXIMAB; TACROLIMUS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA ANTIBODY; VANCOMYCIN; VIDARABINE;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BEHCET DISEASE; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG POTENTIATION; ENCEPHALITIS; ENTEROVIRUS 71; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; FRONTAL LOBE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; LISTERIA; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PATHOGENESIS; PLEOCYTOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGNOSIS; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; RHOMBENCEPHALITIS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BRAIN STEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES, NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 81155148210     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: 15346293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-011-0228-5     Document Type: Article

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