Disorders that mimic central nervous system infections
| Autor: | Louis Reik, Joy A. De Marcaida |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
| Předmět: |
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Vascular disease Brain biopsy Central nervous system Disease medicine.disease Connective tissue disease Central nervous system disease Diagnosis Differential Cerebrospinal fluid medicine.anatomical_structure Central Nervous System Infections Immunopathology Immunology medicine Humans Neurology (clinical) business |
| Zdroj: | Neurologic clinics. 17(4) |
| ISSN: | 0733-8619 |
| Popis: | Many noninfectious diseases can cause signs, symptoms, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) abnormalities simulating central nervous system (CNS) infection. Infection usually can be excluded in these cases by the judicious use of serologic tests and CSF stains and cultures. Then, the correct diagnosis is typically suggested by the history and the concomitant presence of clinical and laboratory evidence of disease in other organ systems. Occasionally, particularly when such evidence is absent, the distinction requires meningeal or brain biopsy. |
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