Myasthenia gravis remission and anti-AChR ab reduction after immunosuppressive and anti-neoplastic therapy in a patient with thymic Hodgkin's disease [7]

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 253, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1241-1242

  Ferro M T ^a   Riccardi, T ^a   Montanelli, A ^a   Bernasconi, P ^b   Mantegazza, R ^b  

^a Istituto Besta ^*  (Italy)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; DACARBAZINE; DOXORUBICIN; PREDNISONE; VINBLASTINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LETTER; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; AUTOANTIBODIES; FEMALE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; THYMECTOMY;

EID: 33749429178     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-006-0171-6     Document Type: Letter

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