Painful legs and moving toes syndrome associated with herpes zoster myelitis

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 219, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 147-150

  Ikeda, Kazuyo ^a   Deguchi, Kazushi ^a   Touge, Tetsuo ^a   Sasaki, Iwao ^a   Tsukaguchi, Masago ^a   Shimamura, Mieko ^a   Komatsu, Emi ^b   Takeuchi, Hiroaki ^a   Kuriyama, Shigeki ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TENRI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Herpes zoster; Moving toes; MRI; Myelopathy; Painful legs; Plasticity; Somatosensory evoked potential

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BACLOFEN; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BUPIVACAINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PHENOL; PREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; LABORATORY TEST; LEG DISEASE; LEG PAIN; LOWER LEG; MEDIAN NERVE; MYELITIS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAINFUL LEGS AND MOVING TOES SYNDROME; POSTERIOR HORN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TIBIAL NERVE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

AGED; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMANS; LEG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; MYELITIS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PAIN; SPINAL CORD; TOES;

EID: 1642446664     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2004.01.011     Document Type: Article

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