Stroke-like phenomena revealing multifocal cerebral vasculitis in pediatric lyme neuroborreliosis

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1226-1229

  Kurian, Mary ^a   Pereira, Vitor Mendes ^a   Vargas, Maria Isabel ^a   Fluss, Joel ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

lyme; neuroborreliosis; pediatric; stroke; stroke like; vasculitis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ACICLOVIR; CEFTRIAXONE; PREDNISONE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FOLLOW UP; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULITIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

CHILD; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LYME NEUROBORRELIOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULITIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84937561222     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: 17088283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0883073814552104     Document Type: Article

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