A 54-tear-old woman with a progressive gait disturbance and painful leg paresthesias

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 339, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 1534-1541

  Gross, P T ^a   Mark, E J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; THORACIC SPINAL CORD;

EID: 3643065568     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199811193392108     Document Type: Article

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