Treating nerves: From anecdote to systematic review

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 432-435

  Hughes, Richard A C ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BELL PALSY; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE COURSE; DOWN REGULATION; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NERVE; NEUROLYSIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; RANDOMIZATION; REVIEW; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCURVY;

ANECDOTES; BELL PALSY; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME; HUMANS; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REVIEW LITERATURE; SCURVY;

EID: 0141907276     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.96.9.432     Document Type: Review

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