Challenges in HSV encephalitis: normocellular CSF, unremarkable CCT, and atypical MRI findings

Infection

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 267-273

  Bewersdorf, Jan Philipp ^a   Koedel, Uwe ^a   Patzig, Maximilian ^a   Dimitriadis, Konstantinos ^a   Paerschke, Grit ^a   Pfister, Hans Walter ^a   Klein, Matthias ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acyclovir; Encephalitis; Foscarnet; Herpes simplex virus (HSV); Neuroradiologic imaging; Normocellular

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIVIRUS AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN STEM; CELL COUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COHORT ANALYSIS; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DETERIORATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TEMPORAL LOBE; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; BRAIN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GERMANY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACYCLOVIR; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BRAIN; COHORT STUDIES; ENCEPHALITIS, HERPES SIMPLEX; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85057832350     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: 14390973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-018-1257-7     Document Type: Article

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