Brainstem signs with progressing atrophy of medulla oblongata and upper cervical spinal cord

Lancet Neurology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 562-570

  Romano, Silvia ^a   Salvetti, Marco ^a   Ceccherini, Isabella ^b   De Simone, Tiziana ^c   Savoiardo, Mario ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ALEXANDER DISEASE; ANAMNESIS; BEHCET DISEASE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; BRAIN STEM TUMOR; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GRANULOMATOSIS; HUMAN; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MEDULLA OBLONGATA ATROPHY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEURORADIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEROLOGY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ATROPHY; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SPINAL CORD; VOICE DISORDERS;

EID: 34248374822     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(07)70129-1     Document Type: Review

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