Recurrent demyelinating myelitis associated with hepatitis C viral infection

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 224, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 101-106

  Grewal, Amrit K ^a   Lopes, M Beatriz ^b   Berg, Carl L ^a   Bennett, Audrey K ^b   Alves, Venâncio A F ^c   Trugman, Joel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Demyelination; Hepatitis C virus; Immunohistochemistry; Myelitis

Indexed keywords

INTERFERON; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LAMINECTOMY; LIVER BIOPSY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MYELITIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPINAL CORD BIOPSY; VASCULITIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELITIS, TRANSVERSE; RECURRENCE; SPINAL CORD; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 4644252029     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2004.06.013     Document Type: Article

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