Using atypical symptoms and red flags to identify non-demyelinating disease

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 44-48

  Kelly, Siobhan B ^a   Chaila, Elijah ^a   Kinsella, Katie ^a   Duggan, Marguerite ^a   Walsh, Cathal ^b   Tubridy, Niall ^a   Hutchinson, Michael ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BELL PALSY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICALLY ISOLATED SYNDROME; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; DYSTONIA; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPLEGIA; PARESTHESIA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYNCOPE; TINNITUS; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

EID: 84155172775     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2011-300679     Document Type: Article

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