Immunologic analysis of a spinal cord-biopsy specimen from a patient with human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I-associated neurologic disease

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 336, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 839-845

  Levin, Michael C ^a   Lehky, Tanya J ^a   Flerlage, Alfred N ^a   Katz, David ^b   Kingma, Douglas W ^c   Jaffe, Elaine S ^c   Heiss, John D ^b   Patronas, Nicholas ^c   Mcfarland, Henry F ^a   Jacobson, Steven ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEPTOMENINX; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

BIOPSY; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PARAPARESIS, TROPICAL SPASTIC; SPINAL CORD; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 0030953919     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199703203361205     Document Type: Article

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