Varicella and stroke in children: Good outcome without steroids

Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Bartolini, Luca ^a   Gentilomo, Chiara ^a   Sartori, Stefano ^a   Calderone, Milena ^a   Simioni, Paolo ^a   Laverda, Anna Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

pediatric thrombosis; stroke; varicella; vascular disease

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ACICLOVIR; FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN; FERRITIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IRON; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; PROTEIN C; PROTEIN S; VALPROIC ACID;

APHASIA; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHOREA; DYSESTHESIA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLOW UP; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLURRED SPEECH; STENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; AUTOANTIBODIES; CHICKENPOX; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; RECURRENCE; STEROIDS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84857219418     PISSN: 10760296     EISSN: 19382723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1076029610389025     Document Type: Article

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