Progressive multifocal leucoencephalopathy in a patient with idiopathic CD4+ lymphocytopenia

Irish Medical Journal

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Moloney, F ^a   Fernandez, D ^a   Harrington, H ^a  

^a University College Cork and INFANT Centre   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ADULT; ARM WEAKNESS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; DELTOID MUSCLE; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DYSARTHRIA; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FASCICULATION; HEMIPARESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JC VIRUS; LIMB WEAKNESS; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIGODENDROGLIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SINUS RHYTHM; STEREOTACTIC BIOPSY; TENDON REFLEX; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; VIROLOGY;

HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JC VIRUS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY, PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; T-LYMPHOCYTOPENIA, IDIOPATHIC CD4-POSITIVE;

EID: 84858596666     PISSN: 03323102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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