The clinical features of herpes simplex encephalitis (acute necrotizing encephalitis)
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The clinical features of herpes simplex encephalitis (acute necrotizing encephalitis)
THE descriptive literature of the encephalitides of all types is characterized by a recognition both of the pleomorphic nature of the disease and of our total therapeutic helplessness. It follows, therefore, that in the past a diagnosis of encephalitis tended to be something of an academic exercise, fatalistically imprecise and the sort of disorder liable to give neurology a bad name. There is ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1973
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.49.572.383