Treatable lumbosacral polyradiculitis masquerading as diabetic amyotrophy

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 223-225

  O'Neill, Bryan J ^a   Flanders, Adam E ^a   Escandon, Sandra L ^a   Tahmoush, Albert J ^a,b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetic amyotrophy; Gadolinium MRI; Perivascular infiltrates; Polyradiculitis; Vasculopathy

Indexed keywords

METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIABETIC AMYOTROPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NERVE BIOPSY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; POLYRADICULITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POLYRADICULOPATHY; SURAL NERVE;

EID: 0030863118     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(97)00114-7     Document Type: Article

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