HyperIgEaemia in patients with juvenile muscular atrophy of the distal upper extremity (Hirayama disease)

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 132-134

  Ito, Shoichi ^a   Kuwabara, S ^a   Fukutake, T ^a   Tokumaru, Y ^a   Hattori, T ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLERGY; ANTERIOR HORN CELL; ARM DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATOPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HIRAYAMA DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERIMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA E; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR HORN CELLS; ARM; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MALE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHIES OF CHILDHOOD; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 10944222253     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.031609     Document Type: Article

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