A case of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy complicated by phrenic nerve palsy

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 118-121

  Kawakami, To Ru ^a   Sekijima, Yoshiki ^a   Tokuda, Takahiko ^a   Yamazaki, Masashi ^a   Yanagisawa, Nobuo ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy; Immunoadsorption plasmapheresis; Phrenic nerve palsy; Respiratory failure; Steroid therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; IMMUNOADSORPTION; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NERVE PARALYSIS; PHRENIC NERVE; PLASMAPHERESIS; POLYRADICULITIS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VITAL CAPACITY;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARALYSIS; PHRENIC NERVE; PLASMAPHERESIS; POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY;

EID: 0031713183     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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