Transcranial magnetic stimulation in Behcet's disease: A cross-sectional and longitudinal study with 44 patients comparing clinical, neuroradiological, somatosensory and brain-stem auditory evoked potential findings

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1320-1329

  Stigsby, Bent ^a   Bohlega, Saeed ^a   McLean, Donald R ^a   Al Kawi, Mohammed Zuheir ^a  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Behcet's disease neuro Behcet; Brain stem auditory evoked potentials; Magnetic resonance imaging; Somatosensory evoked potentials; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEG MUSCLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MONITORING; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEHCET SYNDROME; BRAIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RECURRENCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0034237822     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(00)00312-6     Document Type: Article

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