Postoperative varicella-zoster virus myelopathy and dissemination

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1340-1341

  Guha Thakurta, Nandita ^a   Dang, Bich N ^a   Azeem, Syed ^a   Debnam, J Matthew ^a   Tummala, Sudhakar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; VIRUS DNA; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; DNA DETERMINATION; HEART INFARCTION; HERPES ZOSTER; HERPES ZOSTER MYELOPATHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LAMINECTOMY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIMB WEAKNESS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPINE SURGERY; THYROID CARCINOMA; VERTEBRECTOMY; VESICULAR RASH; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; BONE TUMOR; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RASH; THYROID TUMOR; VIROLOGY;

AGED; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BONE NEOPLASMS; EXANTHEMA; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84857074315     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneurol.2011.741     Document Type: Article

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