Thoracic syringomyela and suspected multiple sclerosis: Cause and effect or coincidence?

Neurology

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 185-186

  Charles, James A ^a   Berger, Mark ^b   Cook, Stuart D ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Hoboken MRI Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; SYRINGOMYELIA; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINE INCONTINENCE; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SARCOIDOSIS; SPINAL CORD;

OLIGOCLONAL BAND;

BRAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; OLIGOCLONAL BANDS; PARAPARESIS, SPASTIC; SARCOIDOSIS; SPINAL CORD; SYRINGOMYELIA;

EID: 3242665118     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000132641.33440.F3     Document Type: Article

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