Making the lame walk?: Transplantation for POEMS

Neurology

Volumn 71, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 1658-1659

  Chalk, Colin ^a,b  

^a MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MELPHALAN; PREDNISONE; VASCULOTROPIN;

AUTOLOGOUS PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING POLYNEUROPATHY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POEMS SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; DRUG THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NOTE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RUNNING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG THERAPY; HUMANS; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; POEMS SYNDROME; RUNNING; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

EID: 58149269947     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000326574.37138.35     Document Type: Editorial

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