Into the looking glass: Predicting MS in children experiencing a first demyelinating event

Neurology

Volumn 71, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 962-963

  Banwell, Brenda L ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTVACCINAL ENCEPHALITIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; BRAIN; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; MYELINATED NERVE; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS;

BRAIN; CHILD; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 54049149469     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000326601.93739.79     Document Type: Editorial

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