Transient ischaemic attack in a 5-year-old girl due to focal vasculitis in neuroborreliosis

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 184-185

  Kohns, Malte ^a   Karenfort, Michael ^a   Schaper, Jörg ^a   Laws, Hans Jürgen ^a   Mayatepek, Ertan ^a   Distelmaier, Felix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CEFTRIAXONE; ENOXAPARIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VERTIGO; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FOCAL VASCULITIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEUROIMAGING; NOTE; RECURRENT DISEASE; VASCULITIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTICOAGULANTS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; LYME NEUROBORRELIOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; SPINAL PUNCTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULITIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84874011853     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: 14219786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000346597     Document Type: Short Survey

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