Fulminant demyelinating neuropathy mimicking cerebral death

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1595-1597

  Bakshi, Nandini ^a   Maselli, Ricardo A ^a   Gospe Jr , Sidney M ^a   Ellis, William G ^b   McDonald, Craig ^b   Mandler, Raul N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain death; Guillain Barre syndrome; Inexcitable nerves; Peripheral neuropathy; Vincristine neuropathy

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMYELINATING NEUROPATHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA DETERMINATION; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NERVE BIOPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA;

EID: 0030778452     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4598(199712)20:12<1595::aid-mus17>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Article

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