Magnetic resonance imaging and clinical features in adults with monophasic demyelinating diseases: Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis or a variant of multiple sclerosis?;Ressonância magnética e características clínicas em adultos com doenças desmielinizantes monofásicas: Encefalomielite aguda disseminada ou uma variante da esclerose múltipla?

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 57, Issue 3 B, 1999, Pages 853-859

  Reis, Fabiano ^b   Kobayashi, Eliane ^b   Maciel, Ernane P ^b   Zanardi, Verônica De A ^b   De Menezes Netto, José R ^b   Damasceno, Benito P ^b   Cendes, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Acute disseminated encephalomyelits; Cerebrospinal fluid; Demyelination; Magnetic resonance imaging; Multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTVACCINAL ENCEPHALITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, ACUTE DISSEMINATED; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0040884784     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-282x1999000500019     Document Type: Article

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