POEMS syndrome with Guillan-Barré syndrome-like acute onset: A case report and review of neurological progression in 30 cases

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 678-680

  Isose, S ^a   Misawa, S ^a   Kanai, K ^a   Shibuya, K ^a   Sekiguchi, Y ^a   Nasu, S ^a   Fujimaki, Y ^a,b   Noto, Y ^a,c   Nakaseko, C ^a   Kuwabara, Satoshi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN NEUROLOGICAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MELPHALAN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; AREFLEXIA; ARTICLE; ASCITES; AUTOLOGOUS PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING POLYNEUROPATHY; DEMYELINATION; DETERIORATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE COURSE; DISTAL PARESTHESIA; DRUG MEGADOSE; EDEMA; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOOT EDEMA; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; LIMB WEAKNESS; MEDIAN NERVE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE CONDUCTION; OSTEOSCLEROSIS; POEMS SYNDROME; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTOSIS; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ADULT; AGED; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POEMS SYNDROME; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 79955758938     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2010.205369     Document Type: Article

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