Plasma-Cell Dyscrasia and Peripheral Neuropathy with a Monoclonal Antibody to Peripheral-Nerve Myelin

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 303, Issue 11, 1980, Pages 618-621

  Latov, Norman ^a   Sherman, William H ^a   Nemni, Raffaello ^a   Galassi, Giuliana ^a   Shyong, Joanna S ^a   Penn, Audrey S ^a   Chess, Leonard ^a   Olarte, Marcelo R ^a   Rowland, Lewis P ^a   Osserman, Elliott F ^a  

^a NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MYELIN ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLOOD AND HEMOPOIETIC SYSTEM; CASE REPORT; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; NERVE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROPATHY; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PLASMA CELL DYSCRASIA;

EID: 0019222001     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198009113031105     Document Type: Article

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