Spinal Magnetic Resonance Image alterations in human T-lymphotropic virus type I-associated myelopathy patients before and after immunomodulating treatments [1]

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 250, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 750-753

  Tajima, Yasutaka ^a   Kishimoto, Ri Ichiro ^a   Sudoh, Kazumasa ^a   Matsumoto, Akihisa ^a   Miyazaki, Yusei ^b   Kikuchi, Seiji ^b   Tashiro, Kunio ^b  

^a SAPPORO CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; INFLAMMATION; LETTER; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; INTERFERON-ALPHA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MYELITIS; PARAPARESIS, TROPICAL SPASTIC; STEROIDS;

EID: 0037782016     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-003-1066-4     Document Type: Letter

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