CCSVI and MS: No meaning, no fact

Neurological Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 269-279

  Baracchini, Claudio ^a   Atzori, Matteo ^a   Gallo, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

CCSVI; Multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; FIBRIN;

BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN PERFUSION; CHRONIC CEREBROSPINAL VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IRON STORAGE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELOOPTIC NEUROPATHY; PATHOGENESIS; PHLEBOGRAPHY; REVIEW; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; FIBRIN; HUMANS; IRON; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84879694771     PISSN: 15901874     EISSN: 15903478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-012-1101-2     Document Type: Review

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