Marked thickening of the peripheral nerves in chronic inflammatory polyradiculoneuropathy associated with HCV infection

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 27-31

  Endo, Kazuhiro ^a   Hoshi, Akihiko ^a   Shimizu, Masaru ^a   Watanabe, Akiko ^a   Sugiura, Yoshihiro ^a   Saito, Naoshi ^a   Honma, Mari ^a   Yamamoto, Teiji ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic hepatitis C virus infection; Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy; Hepatitis C virus RNA; Intravenous gammaglobulin therapy; Steroid therapy

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; JAPAN; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION;

HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVES; POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY, CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS;

EID: 0036386820     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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