Defining the natural history of MS: The need for complete data and rigorous definitions

Multiple Sclerosis

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1142-1143

  Tremlett, Helen ^a   Zhao, Yinshan ^a   Devonshire, Virginia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COLOMBIA; DISEASE COURSE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; SURVIVAL RATE; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, CHRONIC PROGRESSIVE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING;

EID: 58149346106     PISSN: 13524585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1352458508095131     Document Type: Article

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