A predominantly motor polyradiculopathy of Lyme disease

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 780-783

  Scelsa, Stephen N ^a,b,c   Herskovitz, Steven ^a   Berger, Alan R ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

lyme disease; meningitis; myelopathy; polyradiculopathy

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CEFTRIAXONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LYME DISEASE; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; PLASMAPHERESIS; POLYRADICULITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PERONEAL NERVE; POLYRADICULOPATHY; SURAL NERVE;

EID: 0029958944     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199606)19:6<780::AID-MUS16>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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