Dengue encephalitis with predominant cerebellar involvement: Report of eight cases with MR and CT imaging features

European Radiology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 719-725

  Hegde, Vinay ^a   Aziz, Zarina ^b   Kumar, Sharath ^c   Bhat, Maya ^a   Prasad, Chandrajit ^a   Gupta, A K ^a   Netravathi, M ^a   Saini, Jitender ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

^b Sri Sathya Sai General Hospital   (India)

^c Apollo Hospitals   (India)

Author keywords

Cerebellitis; Dengue infection; Encephalitis; Microbleeds; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; CAPSULA INTERNA; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DENGUE; DENGUE ENCEPHALITIS; DIFFUSION; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INSULA; MALE; NEURORADIOLOGIST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CHILD; DENGUE; ENCEPHALITIS, ARBOVIRUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL CAPSULE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THALAMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925497531     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-014-3473-6     Document Type: Article

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