Neurophysiological patterns of ulnar nerve neuropathy in leprosy reactions

Leprosy Review

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 206-215

  Garbino, J A ^a   Naafs, B ^a,b,c   Ura, S ^a   Salgado, M H ^c   Virmond, M ^d  

^a INSTITUTO LAURO DE SOUZA LIMA   (Brazil)

^b Foundation for Dermatology and Venereology 'Polderma' Emmeloord/Steenwijk/Urk   (Netherlands)

^c Regional Dermatology Training Centre (RDTC)   (Tanzania)

^d SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE LEPROSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; ELBOW; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM LEPROSUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEPROMATOUS LEPROSY; LEPROSY; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MULTIBACILLARY LEPROSY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPATHY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PARESTHESIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PAUCIBACILLARY LEPROSY; REVERSAL REACTION; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; TUBERCULOID LEPROSY; ULNAR NERVE; WRIST;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPROSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PREDNISONE; REACTION TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULNAR NERVE; ULNAR NEUROPATHIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649358802     PISSN: 03057518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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