Demyelinating polyneuropathy with preferentially-proximal involvement

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 53-55

  Asahina, Masato ^a   Kuwabara, Satoshi ^a   Nakajima, Masashi ^a   Yamada, Tatsuo ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conduction block; Demyelinating polyneuropathy; Motor neuropathy

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DENERVATION; FASCICULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; POLYNEUROPATHY; ULNAR NERVE;

DEMYELINATING DISEASES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; POLYNEUROPATHIES;

EID: 0031806424     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-8467(97)00121-2     Document Type: Article

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