Extensive extracranial and intracranial varicella zoster vasculopathy

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Verma, Rajesh ^a   Lalla, Rakesh ^a   Patil, Tushar B ^a  

^a KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ACICLOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; STEROID; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VARICELLA VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANCA ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ANTIBODY TITER; AORTOGRAPHY; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DROWSINESS; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; GRANULOMATOSIS; HEMIPLEGIA; HERPES ZOSTER; HERPES ZOSTER INDUCED VASCULOPATHY; HUMAN; LEG INJURY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MYCOSIS; NEUROSYPHILIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RETINA ARTERY OCCLUSION; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH THERAPY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS VASCULITIS; VASCULITIS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WEAKNESS;

EID: 84870477148     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2012-006845     Document Type: Article

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