Marburg type and Balò's concentric sclerosis: Rare and acute variants of multiple sclerosis

Neurological Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2004, Pages

  Capello, E ^a   Mancardi, G L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atypical MS forms; Fulminant demyelinating disease; Malignant monophasic MS

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MITOXANTRONE; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; STEROID;

ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; DEMYELINATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; LABORATORY TEST; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PELIZAEUS MERZBACHER DISEASE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION;

BRAIN; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; DIFFUSE CEREBRAL SCLEROSIS OF SCHILDER; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELIN SHEATH;

EID: 10044280811     PISSN: 15901874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-004-0341-1     Document Type: Article

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