Occurrence of CNS demyelinating disease in patients with myasthenia gravis

Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 881-883

  Gotkine, Marc ^a   Fellig, Yakov ^a   Abramsky, Oded ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AZATHIOPRINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PYRIDOSTIGMINE; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOMODULATION; INCIDENCE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; MYELITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; THYMECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; CHILD; DEMYELINATING AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES, CNS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 33748703337     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000234142.41728.a0     Document Type: Article

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