Clinical and laboratory features of myelitis patients with anti- neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 60-66

  Nakashima, Ichiro ^a   Fujihara, Kazuo ^a   Endo, Minoru ^b   Seki, Hisatomo ^c   Okita, Naoshi ^c   Takase, Sadao ^c   Itoyama, Yasuto ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Tohoku Welfare Pension Hospital   (Japan)

^c KOHNAN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies; Autoantibody; MRI; Multiple sclerosis; Myelitis; Pleocytosis

Indexed keywords

NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; CELL COUNT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; IMMUNE SERA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MIDDLE AGED; MYELITIS; NEUTROPHILS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0032522522     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(98)00073-2     Document Type: Article

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