Pseudoneurotoxic disease

Neurology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 22-26

  Schaumburg, Herbert H ^a   Albers, James W ^b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; CHLORPROMAZINE; HEXANE; LEAD; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE; TOLUENE;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DYSKINESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEAD POISONING; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHY; NEUROTOXICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDONEUROTOXIC DISEASE; REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; NEUROTOXINS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS;

EID: 22044450812     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000169015.79751.F4     Document Type: Review

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