Functional recovery of chronic complete idiopathic transverse myelitis after administration of neurotrophic factors

Spinal Cord

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 254-257

  Lin, P H ^a   Chuang, T Y ^a,b   Liao, K K ^a   Cheng, H ^a   Shih, Y S ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acidic fibroblast growth factor; Locomotion; Paraplegia; Transverse myelitis

Indexed keywords

ACIDIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBRIN GLUE; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; BRACE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTIPATION; CONVALESCENCE; DERMATOME; DURA MATER; EVALUATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GAIT; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HAMSTRING; HIP; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LEG; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MEDICAL RECORD; MOBILIZATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MYELITIS; NERVE REGENERATION; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; ROTATION; SENSATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SPASTIC PARESIS; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TILTING; TREADMILL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TRUNK; URINE RETENTION; WALKING; WALKING AID;

ADULT; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 1; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; MYELITIS, TRANSVERSE; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NERVE REGENERATION; PARAPLEGIA; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SENSATION DISORDERS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL PUNCTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINATION DISORDERS;

EID: 33645736169     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: 14765624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.sc.3101809     Document Type: Article

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