Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis: Current understanding and controversies

Seminars in Neurology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 84-94

  Young, Nathan P ^a   Weinshenker, Brian G ^a   Lucchinetti, Claudia F ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis; Idiopathic inflammatory demyelination disease; Perivenous encephalomyelitis; Postinfectious encephalomyelitis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OLIGOCLONAL BAND;

ACUTE DISEASE; BRAIN BIOPSY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NEURITIS; PATHOGENESIS; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW;

AGE OF ONSET; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, ACUTE DISSEMINATED; HUMANS; INFECTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; OPTIC NEURITIS;

EID: 39449121111     PISSN: 02718235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1019130     Document Type: Review

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