Acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis: Clinical characteristics and outcome

Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 26-30

  Elhassanien, Ahmed Farag ^a   Aziz, Hesham Abdel ^b  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b BENHA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis; immunosuppressive therapy; multifocal demyelination

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ACUTE DEMYELINATING ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONVULSION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HOSPITALIZED CHILD; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; KUWAIT; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NOSE SMEAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SPRING; SUBCORTEX; THROAT CULTURE; VIROLOGY; WHITE MATTER LESION; WINTER;

EID: 84878457404     PISSN: 18171745     EISSN: 19983948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1817-1745.111418     Document Type: Article

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