Response to treatment in patients with Lewis-Sumner syndrome

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 179-184

  Shahram, Attarian ^a   Verschueren, Annie ^a   Jérome, Franques ^a   Salort Campana, Emmanuelle ^a   Jouve, Elisabeth ^a   Pouget, Jean ^a  

^a TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Cidp; Demyelinating neuropathy; Intravenous immunoglobulin; Lewis sumner syndrome; Multifocal sensorimotor neuropathy

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEWIS SUMNER SYNDROME; MALE; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETREATMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY, CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79960510135     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.22024     Document Type: Article

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