Simultaneous PML-IRIS and myelitis in a patient with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder

Neurology: Clinical Practice

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 448-451

  Flanagan, Eoin P ^a   Aksamit, Allen J ^a   Kumar, Neeraj ^a   Morparia, Neha P ^a   Keegan, B Mark ^a   Weinshenker, Brian G ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AZATHIOPRINE; CYTARABINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIC GAIT; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM INJURY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSARTHRIA; DYSMETRIA; FALLING; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HEMIPARESIS; HERPES ZOSTER OPHTHALMICUS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RECONSTITUTION INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; JC VIRUS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIMB WEAKNESS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MEDICAL HISTORY; MYELITIS; MYELOOPTIC NEUROPATHY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; PERNICIOUS ANEMIA; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PLASMAPHERESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; RASH; RECURRENT DISEASE; RELAPSE; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SPINAL CORD LESION; STEROID THERAPY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; WHITE MATTER LESION;

EID: 84887904868     PISSN: 21630402     EISSN: 21630933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/CPJ.0b013e3182a78f82     Document Type: Article

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