Facial nerve paralisy and HTLV-1: Two new cases;Paralysie faciale périphérique chez des patients infectés par le virus HTLV-1: Deux observations

Presse Medicale

Volumn 31, Issue 37, 2002, Pages 1746-1747

  Deligny, Christophe ^a   Cabre, Philippe ^b   Thévenot, Corinne ^b   Dubreuil, Fabienne ^a   Arfi, Serge ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE FORT DE FRANCE   (France)

^b CH Cayenne   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CASE REPORT; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; RETROVIRUS; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MARTINIQUE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARAPARESIS, TROPICAL SPASTIC;

EID: 0037164480     PISSN: 07554982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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