Acute divergence paralysis in the Miller Fisher syndrome

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 524-526

  Oguro, Hiroaki ^a   Yamaguchi, Shuhei ^a   Abe, Satoshi ^a   Bokura, Hirokazu ^a   Kobayashi, Shotai ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti GQ1b antibodies; Anti GT1a antibodies; Divergence paralysis; Miller Fisher syndrome

Indexed keywords

GANGLIOSIDE GQ 1B ANTIBODY; GANGLIOSIDE GT 1A ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AREFLEXIA; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BULBAR PARALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CONVERGENT STRABISMUS; DIPLOPIA; DIVERGENCE PARALYSIS; EXTERNAL OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERESTHESIA; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARALYSIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; VIBRATION SENSE;

ACUTE DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILLER FISHER SYNDROME; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA;

EID: 23944455322     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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