Angiostrongylus meningitis associated with intraparenchymal cerebral haemorrhage

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 126, Issue 1386, 2013, Pages 98-102

  Lilic, Nikola ^a   Addison, Ben ^b  

^a Counties Manukau District Health Board ^*  (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; ADULT; ANGIOSTRONGYLIASIS; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EOSINOPHILIA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MALE; MASTOIDITIS; MENINGITIS; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEIZURE; VOMITING;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGITIS; MICRONESIA; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAVEL;

EID: 84888153696     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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