What internists need to know about postpolio syndrome

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 704-712

  Silver, Julie K ^a   Aiello, Dorothy D ^a  

^a Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BROMOCRIPTINE MESILATE; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; DIAZEPAM; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; METHYLPHENIDATE; MODAFINIL; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PHENYTOIN; PROPRANOLOL; PYRIDOSTIGMINE; TRAMADOL; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG INHIBITION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; LACRIMATION; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MICTURITION DISORDER; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYOFASCIAL PAIN; NAUSEA; NERVOUSNESS; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; OLIGOPHRENIA; OSTEOPENIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POLIOMYELITIS; POSTPOLIOMYELITIS SYNDROME; REVIEW; SALIVATION DISORDER; SCREENING TEST; SPEECH REHABILITATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; URINE RETENTION;

EID: 0036740631     PISSN: 08911150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3949/ccjm.69.9.704     Document Type: Review

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