Acute Cerebellitis in Children

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 991-997

  Kornreich, Liora ^a,b   Shkalim Zemer, Vered ^a,b   Levinsky, Yoel ^a,b   Abdallah, Wafa ^a   Ganelin Cohen, Esther ^a,b   Straussberg, Rachel ^a,b  

^a SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

ataxia; cerebellitis; headache; increased intracranial pressure

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; FUROSEMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MANNITOL; STEROID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACUTE CEREBELLITIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CEREBELLUM INJURY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DATA BASE; DYSARTHRIA; DYSMETRIA; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEMISPHERE; HERPETIC STOMATITIS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NYSTAGMUS; PHONOPHOBIA; PHOTOPHOBIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SOMNOLENCE; STEROID THERAPY; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULOSTOMY; VOMITING; BLOOD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENCEPHALITIS; FOLLOW UP; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ATAXIA; BIOMARKERS; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84974663280     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: 17088283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0883073816634860     Document Type: Article

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