Characteristic spinal MRI findings of HIV-associated myelopathy in an AIDS patient

Internal Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 763-764

  Shimojima, Yoshio ^a   Yazaki, Masahide ^a   Kaneko, Kazuma ^a   Fukushima, Kazuhiro ^a   Morita, Hiroshi ^a   Hashimoto, Takao ^a   Ikeda, Shu Ichi ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS); Immunodeficiency virus (HIV); Magnetic resonance image (MRI); Vacuolar myelopathy

Indexed keywords

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; VIRUS LOAD;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; SPINE;

EID: 23244458465     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.44.763     Document Type: Article

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