Clinical, nerve conduction and nerve biopsy study in vitamin B12 deficiency neurological syndrome with a short-term follow-up

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 156-163

  Kalita, Jayantee ^a   Chandra, Satish ^a   Bhoi, Sanjeev K ^a   Agarwal, Ritu ^a   Misra, Usha Kant ^a   Shankar, Surala K ^b   Mahadevan, Anita ^b  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Nerve biopsy; Nerve conduction study; Neuropathy; Outcome; Subacute combined degeneration; Vitamin B12

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; HEMOGLOBIN; PARIETAL CELL ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AREFLEXIA; ARTICLE; BURNING SENSATION; CHILD; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DEMYELINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOREFLEXIA; LIMB WEAKNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEGALOCYTOSIS; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NERVE BIOPSY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARAPLEGIA; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN SENSATION; SPASTICITY; BIOPSY; COMPLICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEURAL CONDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VITAMIN B 12; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901380607     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: 14768305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1476830513Y.0000000073     Document Type: Article

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