Imaging of Meningitis and Ventriculitis

Neuroimaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 557-583

  Mohan, Suyash ^a   Jain, Krishan K ^b   Arabi, Mohammad ^c   Shah, Gaurang V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Complications; Infection; Magnetic resonance imaging; Meningitis; Ventriculitis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BRAIN; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INFECTION; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN VENTRICULITIS; CHEMICAL MENINGITIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ENCEPHALITIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LYME DISEASE; MENINGITIS; MENINX; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSYPHILIS; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY AMEBIC MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN ABSCESS; CEREBRAL VENTRICULITIS; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; CROSS INFECTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALOCELE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGES; MENINGITIS; REFERENCE VALUES; SPINAL PUNCTURE; VASCULITIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84868233109     PISSN: 10525149     EISSN: 15579867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nic.2012.04.003     Document Type: Review

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