Presse Med
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Case Reports Comparative Study
[Recurrent Mollaret's meningitis of herpetic origin].
Benign recurrent meningitis, or Mollaret's meningitis, is an uncommon disease whose viral origin was long unidentified. Since 1991, about twenty cases have been reported in patients with herpes infection. ⋯ HSV2 infection is one of the known causes of Mollaret's meningitis. Long-term antiviral therapy appears to prevent recurrence as was observed in our patient.
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MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES: Management of papillary and follicular cancer of the thyroid varies somewhat between centers because of the generally good prognosis and the absence of well-controlled therapeutic trials. The internationally recognized TNM system is widely used to modulate treatment and follow-up to the individual situation.
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MORE THAN SEMANTICS: The complexity of the problem raised by this apparently simple question becomes apparent if one examines the meanings behind the words.
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ANATOMIC DEFINITION: Bronchiolitis is an inflammatory condition of the small airways, membranous and respiratory bronchioles.
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A CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS: Headache which appears in the upright position and subsides in the reclining position is suggestive of intracranial hypotension Brain magnetic resonance imaging can eliminate an intracranial tumoral process. In most cases, contrast images after gadolinium injection show a diffuse hypersignal of all the meninges including the falx cerebri and the tentorium cerebelli.