Gaze palsy, hypogeusia and a probable association with miscarriage of pregnancy - The expanding clinical spectrum of non-opticospinal neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders: A case report

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Chang, Thashi ^a,b   Withana, Milinda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL OF SRI LANKA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Area postrema; Gaze palsy; Hypogeusia; Miscarriage; NMOSD

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN 4; AUTOANTIBODY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; COMPLICATION; DIENCEPHALON; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYELITIS, TRANSVERSE; NEUROMYELITIS OPTICA; PARALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADOLESCENT; AQUAPORIN 4; AUTOANTIBODIES; BRAIN STEM; CEREBRUM; DIENCEPHALON; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MIDDLE AGED; MYELITIS, TRANSVERSE; NEUROMYELITIS OPTICA; PARALYSIS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84924298223     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13104-015-0991-5     Document Type: Article

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