Prominent effect of immunoadsorption plasmapheresis therapy in a patient with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy associated with hepatitis B infection

Therapeutic Apheresis

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 305-307

  Inoue, Atsushi ^a   Oguchi, Kennya ^a   Iwahashi, Teruaki ^a   Arakura, Hideo ^a   Koh, Chang Sung ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy; Hepatitis B.

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMMUNOADSORPTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; NERVE BIOPSY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031726778     PISSN: 10916660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-9987.1998.tb00128.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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