Lower motor neuron disease associated with myelofibrosis

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 109-112

  Bir, Levent Sinan ^a   Keskin, Ali ^a   Yaren, Arzu ^a   Sermez, Yurdaer ^a   Oguzhanoglu, Atilla ^a   Şahiner, Türker ^a  

^a PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Haematological malignancies; Lower motor neuron syndrome; Motor neuron diseases; Myelofibrosis; Myeloproliferative diseases; Paraneoplastic syndrome

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYUREA; PHENYTOIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BONE MARROW CELL; BONE MARROW CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CELL DENSITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FASCICULATION; FOREARM; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; LARYNX DISORDER; MALE; MEGAKARYOCYTE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYELOFIBROSIS; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER; NECK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALATE; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; SPLENOMEGALY; TENDON REFLEX;

ATROPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYELOFIBROSIS;

EID: 0034094040     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-8467(00)00072-X     Document Type: Article

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