A 60-year-old woman with headache, confusion, and hallucinations

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1486-1494

  Makol, Ashima ^a   Parisi, Joseph E ^a   Petty, George W ^a   Watson, Robert E ^a   Warrington, Kenneth J ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ETIRACETAM; GLUCOSE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ALLERGY; ASTHMA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BREATHING RATE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFUSION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISORIENTATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; EEG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEADACHE; HEART RATE; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFECTION PREVENTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MARRIAGE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; RELAPSE; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; TEACHER; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS; VISUAL HALLUCINATION; WHITE MATTER;

AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; BIOPSY; BRAIN; CONFUSION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HALLUCINATIONS; HEADACHE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; STEROIDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULITIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 81255191065     PISSN: 21514658     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acr.20536     Document Type: Conference Paper

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