Revised McDonald criteria: The persisting importance of cerebrospinal fluid analysis

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 520-

  Tumani, Hayrettin ^a   Deisenhammer, Florian ^b   Giovannoni, Gavin ^c   Gold, Ralf ^d   Hartung, Hans Peter ^e   Hemmer, Bernhard ^f   Hohlfeld, Reinhard ^g   Otto, Markus ^a   Stangel, Martin ^h   Wildemann, Brigitte ⁱ   Zettl, Uwe K ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^e HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^g University of Gro Hadern   (Germany)

^h HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRAIN BIOPSY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LETTER; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELOOPTIC NEUROPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOM;

HUMANS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS;

EID: 80052587581     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: 15318249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.22508     Document Type: Letter

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