Approach to acute or subacute myelopathy

Neurology

Volumn 75, Issue 18 SUPPL.1, 2010, Pages

  Schmalstieg, William F ^a   Weinshenker, Brian G ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; GADOLINIUM; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MITOXANTRONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; RITUXIMAB; STEROID;

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE DISSEMINATED ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ACUTE INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DURAL ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS INFECTION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELITIS; MYELOGRAPHY; MYELOOPTIC NEUROPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLASMAPHERESIS; POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; SPINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 78650148925     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181fb3638     Document Type: Article

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