Baló's concentric sclerosis presenting as a stroke-like syndrome

Nature Clinical Practice Neurology

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 349-354

  Mowry, Ellen M ^a   Woo, John H ^a   Ances, Beau M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; LABORATORY TEST; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PARESTHESIA; PELIZAEUS MERZBACHER DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEAKNESS;

ADULT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSE CEREBRAL SCLEROSIS OF SCHILDER; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34250204926     PISSN: 1745834X     EISSN: 17458358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneuro0522     Document Type: Article

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