Follow-up study and response to treatment in 23 patients with Lewis-Sumner syndrome

Brain

Volumn 127, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2010-2017

  Viala, K ^a   Renie L ^a   Maisonobe, T ^a   Behin A ^a   Neil, J ^a   Leger J M ^a   Bouche, P ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy; Lewis Sumner syndrome; Multifocal acquired demyelinating sensory and motor neuropathy; Multifocal motor neuropathy

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING POLYRADICULOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; F WAVE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LEWIS SUMNER SYNDROME; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MULTIFOCAL ACQUIRED DEMYELINATING SENSORY AND MOTOR NEUROPATHY; MULTIFOCAL MOTOR NEUROPATHY; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; STEROID THERAPY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; ARM; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; SENSATION DISORDERS; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2542480690     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh222     Document Type: Article

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