A case of brachial amyotrophic diplegia accompanied with Sjögren's syndrome presenting good response to immunotherapies in the early course of the disease

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 346-350

  Takakura, Yuka ^a   Murai, Hiroyuki ^a   Furuya, Hirokazu ^a   Ochi, Hirofumi ^a   Kira, Jun Ichi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antineuronal antibodies; Autoimmune disease; Motor neuron disease; Sj gren's syndrome; SPMA

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

AGED; ANTERIOR HORN CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BRACHIAL AMYOTROPHIC DIPLEGIA; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIALGIA; CASE REPORT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FASCICULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NERVE BLOCK; PLASMAPHERESIS; PROGRESSIVE MUSCULAR ATROPHY; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE FUSION; TENDON REFLEX; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

AGED; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEURITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; SJOGREN'S SYNDROME;

EID: 21244477953     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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