Muscle-specific kinase (MuSK) antibody-associated myasthenia gravis after bone marrow transplantation

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1074-1075

  Atassi, Nazem ^a   Amato, Anthony A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; ENZYME ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; MUSCLE SPECIFIC TYROSINE KINASE ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; PYRIDOSTIGMINE;

ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ANTIBODY DETECTION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION;

ANTIBODIES; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC;

EID: 49449103694     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21023     Document Type: Letter

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