MNGIE neuropathy: Five cases mimicking chrohic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 364-368

  Bedlack, Richard S ^a   Vu, Tuan ^b,c   Hammans, Simon ^d   Sparr, Steven A ^e   Myers, Bennett ^a   Morgenlander, Joel ^a   Hirano, Michio ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c YORK HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Demyelination; Inflammation; Mitochondria; Mitochondrial myopathy; Peripheral neuropathy; Thymidine phosphorylase

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PREDNISONE; THYMIDINE; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL MYOPATHY; MNGIE SYNDROME; NERVE CONDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AXONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL ENCEPHALOMYOPATHIES; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY, CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE;

EID: 1442328925     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.10546     Document Type: Article

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