Severe cranial nerve involvement in longstanding demyelinating polyneuropathy: A clinicopathologic correlation

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 309-312

  McCann, Erin L ^a   Smith, Thomas W ^a   Chad, David A ^a   Sargent, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy; Clinicopathologic study; Cranial nerves; Onion bulb formations

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ARTICLE; ATAXIA; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIAL NERVE; DEMYELINATING NEUROPATHY; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PNEUMONIA; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SPINAL GANGLION; SPINAL ROOT;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CRANIAL NERVES; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; GLIOSIS; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 0030052947     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010050430     Document Type: Article

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