Linear medullary pericanal lesion with longitudinal myelitis can be diagnostic of neuromyelitis optica

Internal Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 175-176

  Tomizawa, Yuji ^a   Fukae, Jiro ^a   Noda, Kazuyuki ^a   Fujishima, Kenji ^a   Yokoyama, Kazumasa ^b   Hattori, Nobutaka ^b   Takahashi, Toshiyuki ^c   Okuma, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SHIZUOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hiccup; Long cord lesion; Medullary lesion; NMO

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN 4; GADOLINIUM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HICCUP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIP BIOPSY; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MYELITIS; MYELOOPTIC NEUROPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; REFLEX DISORDER; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; TENDON REFLEX;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMYELITIS OPTICA; SJOGREN'S SYNDROME; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 61749104187     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.48.1719     Document Type: Article

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