Clinical characteristics of patients with late-onset multiple sclerosis

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 255, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 697-702

  Kis, B ^a,b   Rumberg, B ^a,c   Berlit, P ^a  

^a ALFRIED KRUPP KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age of onset; Cerebrospinal fluid; Magnetic resonance imaging; Multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BETA INTERFERON; CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MITOXANTRONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BRAIN DAMAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSARTHRIA; EVOKED RESPONSE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; OPTIC NEURITIS; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPINAL CORD LESION; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DRUG RESISTANCE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, CHRONIC PROGRESSIVE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING; OLIGOCLONAL BANDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD; STEROIDS;

EID: 44449098618     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-008-0778-x     Document Type: Article

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