The lumping and splitting of inflammatory CNS diseases

Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1466-1467

  Kerr, Douglas A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CYTOKINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ACUTE DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELITIS; MYELOOPTIC NEUROPATHY; OPTIC NEURITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BRAIN; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; INFLAMMATION; NOTE; OPTIC NERVE; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SPINAL CORD;

BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROMYELITIS OPTICA; OPTIC NERVE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 33745360142     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000221747.37657.c6     Document Type: Editorial

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