Viral brachial neuritis in Emergency Medicine

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 177-179

  Vanpee, Dominique ^a   Laloux, Patrice ^a   Gillet, Jean Bernard ^a   Esselinckx, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acute brachial neuritis; Parsonage Turner syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; GADOLINIUM; NAPROXEN; PARACETAMOL; TRAMADOL;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRACHIALGIA; CASE REPORT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SHOULDER PAIN;

ADULT; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEURITIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; ROTATOR CUFF; TENDINOPATHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034142136     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0736-4679(99)00189-4     Document Type: Article

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