Rapid development of 9 cerebral aneurysms in varicella-zoster virus vasculopathy

Neurology

Volumn 82, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 2139-2141

  Liberman, Ava L ^a   Nagel, Maria A ^a   Hurley, Michael C ^a   Caprio, Frances Z ^a   Bernstein, Richard A ^a   Gilden, Don ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ACICLOVIR; CARDIOLIPIN ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; VALACICLOVIR;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CIRCULATION ANEURYSM; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEMATOMA; HEMIPLEGIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LENTICULOSTRIATE ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SYLVIAN FISSURE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT DURATION; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS VASCULOPATHY; VASCULAR DISEASE; WEAKNESS;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENCEPHALITIS, VARICELLA ZOSTER; FEMALE; HERPES ZOSTER; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84902362770     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000000503     Document Type: Note

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