Too hot to handle: Heat stroke in multiple system atrophy [1]

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 254, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 664-665

  Verstappen, Carla C P ^a   Bloem, Bastiaan R ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; IODINE 123; LEVODOPA; N [(1 ETHYL 2 PYRROLIDINYL)METHYL] 3 IODO 6 METHOXYSALICYLAMIDE;

AGED; ANHIDROSIS; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BABINSKI REFLEX; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; BODY POSTURE; CASE REPORT; DIZZINESS; DYSPHAGIA; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAT STROKE; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; LETTER; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOMNOLENCE; STRIATONIGRAL DEGENERATION; SUMMER; TENDON REFLEX; TREMOR; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VIBRATION SENSE; XEROSTOMIA;

AGED; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEAT; HEAT STROKE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY;

EID: 34249037397     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-006-0286-9     Document Type: Letter

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