Pregnancy and multiple sclerosis: The children of PRIMS

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 266-270

  Vukusic, Sandra ^a   Confavreux, Christian ^a  

^a HÔPITAL NEUROLOGIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Hormones; Multiple sclerosis; Pregnancy; Prognosis; Relapses

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; ESTRADIOL; GESTAGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PROGESTERONE;

BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LABOR STAGE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PUERPERIUM; RECURRENCE RISK;

ADULT; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 33644629885     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2005.11.016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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