Treatment for idiopathic and hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy (brachial neuritis)

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Van Alfen, Nens ^a   Van Engelen, Baziel G M ^a   Hughes, Richard A C ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; PLACEBO; PREDNISOLONE;

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA EXTRACTION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GENETIC DISORDER; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MORBIDITY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NEURALGIC AMYOTROPHY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 70049101775     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006976.pub2     Document Type: Review

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