 Meningitis, Aseptic
"Meningitis, Aseptic" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A syndrome characterized by headache, neck stiffness, low grade fever, and CSF lymphocytic pleocytosis in the absence of an acute bacterial pathogen. Viral meningitis is the most frequent cause although MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; diagnostic or therapeutic procedures; NEOPLASTIC PROCESSES; septic perimeningeal foci; and other conditions may result in this syndrome. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p745)
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D008582
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C02.182.550.600 C02.587.600 C10.228.228.210.500.600 C10.228.228.507.220 C10.228.228.507.700.600
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| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Meningitis, Aseptic" by people in Profiles.
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Nigrovic LE, Kuppermann N, Macias CG, Cannavino CR, Moro-Sutherland DM, Schremmer RD, Schwab SH, Agrawal D, Mansour KM, Bennett JE, Katsogridakis YL, Mohseni MM, Bulloch B, Steele DW, Kaplan RL, Herman MI, Bandyopadhyay S, Dayan P, Truong UT, Wang VJ, Bonsu BK, Chapman JL, Kanegaye JT, Malley R. Clinical prediction rule for identifying children with cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis at very low risk of bacterial meningitis. JAMA. 2007 Jan 03; 297(1):52-60.
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