Case of chronic lymphocytic inflammation with pontine perivascular enhancement responsive to steroids showing features common to multiple sclerosis

Clinical and Experimental Neuroimmunology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 104-106

  Sonoda, Kazutaka ^a   Yamasaki, Ryo ^a   Matsushita, Takuya ^a   Yoshimura, Takeo ^b   Murai, Hiroyuki ^a   Kira, Jun Ichi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Fukuoka City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; GADOLINIUM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; BEHCET DISEASE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC INFLAMMATION WITH PONTINE PERIVASCULAR ENHANCEMENT RESPONSIVE TO STEROID; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; IMMUNE RECONSTITUTION INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLASMAPHERESIS; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 84880013249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17591961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cen3.12028     Document Type: Note

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