Kawasaki disease-associated MERS: Pathological insights from SPECT findings

Brain and Development

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 605-608

  Sato, Tatsuharu ^a   Ushiroda, Yoko ^a   Oyama, Toshifumi ^a   Nakatomi, Akiko ^a   Motomura, Hideki ^a   Moriuchi, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral hypoperfusion; Clinically mild encephalitis encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion (MERS); Hyponatremia; Kawasaki disease; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CHILD; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONSCIOUSNESS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEHYDRATION; DELIRIUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HALLUCINATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MENTAL INSTABILITY; MILD ENCEPHALITIS WITH REVERSIBLE SPLENIAL LESION; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT REFERRAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOMNOLENCE; THALAMUS; VASCULITIC RASH;

CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHILD; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84857997028     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: 18727131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2011.09.015     Document Type: Article

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