A combined presentation of Graves' disease and Miller-Fisher syndrome

The Lancet

Volumn 371, Issue 9627, 2008, Pages 1886-

  Vetsch, Gabi ^a   Pato, Urs ^a   Fischli, Stefan ^a   Lepper, Sabine ^a   Lönnfors Weitzel, Tarja ^a   Offinger, Alexander ^a   Bürgi, Ulrich ^a   Schiemann, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CARBIMAZOLE; GQ1B ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE; PROPRANOLOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIPLOPIA; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; NEUROGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBIT EDEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID GLAND; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 44349186084     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60803-X     Document Type: Article

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