"Sunbath polyneuritis": Subacute axonal neuropathy in perazine-treated patients after intense sun exposure

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 438-441

  Roelcke, Ulrich ^a,e   Hornstein, Christiane ^b   Hund, Ernst ^a   Schmitt, Horst P ^a   Siess, Rainer ^c   Kaltenmaier, Matthias ^d   Fässler, Jakob ^d   Meinck, Hans M ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Psychiatric State Hospital   (Germany)

^c Univ Department of Neuropathology ^*  (Germany)

^d Municipal Hosptial   (Germany)

^e PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Facial nerve palsy; Perazine; Phenothiazines; Photosensitivity; Subacute neuropathy

Indexed keywords

PERAZINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; NERVE BIOPSY; NEURITIS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROTOXICITY; PHOTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; SUN EXPOSURE; SUNBURN; SURAL NERVE;

ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HELIOTHERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURITIS; PERAZINE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RADIATION INJURIES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SURAL NERVE;

EID: 0029863593     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4598(199604)19:4<438::aid-mus2>3.0.co;2-d     Document Type: Article

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