Multifocal acquired demyelinating sensory and motor neuropathy: The Lewis-Sumner syndrome

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 560-566

  Saperstein, David S ^a   Amato, Anthony A ^b   Wolfe, Gil I ^a   Katz, Jonathan S ^c   Nations, Sharon P ^a   Jackson, Carlayne E ^b   Bryan, Wilson W ^a   Burns, Dennis K ^a   Barohn, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy; Conduction block; Lewis Sumner syndrome; Mononeuropathy multiplex; Multifocal motor neuropathy

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEWIS SUMNER SYNDROME; MALE; MOTOR NEUROPATHY; NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; SYNDROME DELINEATION;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PERONEAL NERVE; RADIAL NERVE; SURAL NERVE; TIBIAL NERVE; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 0032959118     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199905)22:5<560::AID-MUS2>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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