Pearls & Oy-sters: Bilateral thalamic involvement in West Nile virus encephalitis

Neurology

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Guth, James C ^a   Futterer, Stephen A ^b   Hijaz, Tarek A ^b   Liotta, Eric M ^a   Rosenberg, Neil F ^c   Naidech, Andrew M ^a   Maas, Matthew B ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INTERMOUNTAIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TACROLIMUS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; COMA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VOMITING; WEAKNESS; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; YOUNG ADULT; BRAIN; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; THALAMUS; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

BRAIN; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THALAMUS; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903977938     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000000571     Document Type: Article

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