Recurrent acute transverse myelopathy: An 83-year-old man with antiphospholipid syndrome

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 987-991

  Matsushita, Tatsuo ^a   Kanda, Fumio ^a   Yamada, Hajime ^a   Chihara, Kazuo ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antiphospholipid syndrome; Elderly; Lupus anticoagulant; Steroid; Transverse myelopathy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYELITIS; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LUPUS COAGULATION INHIBITOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MYELITIS, TRANSVERSE;

EID: 0031407640     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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