Clinicopathological conference: A case of ascending numbness

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 365-371

  Bizovi, Kenneth ^a   Emerson, Lynn ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YORK HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Lyme disease; Nervous system diseases; Peripheral nervous system diseases; Polyradiculoneuritis; Transverse myelitis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE INTERMITTENT PORPHYRIA; ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BOTULISM; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIPHTHERIA; FEMALE; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPERMAGNESEMIA; INTOXICATION; LYME DISEASE; MUSCLE DISEASE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; MYELITIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL ROOT;

EID: 0034070675     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2000.tb02239.x     Document Type: Article

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