Journal article
Brain swelling and ischaemia in Kenyans with cerebral malaria.
- Abstract:
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Computed tomography was performed on 14 unconscious Kenyan children recovering from cerebral malaria (seven of whom had another scan 12-120 days later) to elucidate the cause of intracranial hypertension and neurological sequelae. Brain swelling, defined as a loss of cerebrospinal fluid spaces, was documented in six children, while a further two had conspicuously small ventricles only. There was severe intracranial hypertension in the two children with definite brain swelling in whom intracra...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Archives of disease in childhood
- Volume:
- 70
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 281-287
- Publication date:
- 1994-04-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1468-2044
- ISSN:
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0003-9888
- Source identifiers:
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44408
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:44408
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- pubs:44408
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- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright date:
- 1994
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