Acute lower motor neuron syndrome and spinal cord gray matter hyperintensities in HIV infection

Neurology: Neuroimmunology and NeuroInflammation

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Bogoch, Isaac I ^a,b   Wilson, Michael R ^b   Chad, David A ^c,d,e   Venna, Nagagopal ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFAVIRENZ; EMTRICITABINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PREDNISONE; TENOFOVIR;

ADULT; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARM PAIN; ARM WEAKNESS; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CENTRAL GRAY MATTER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; DELTOID MUSCLE; DYSTONIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FASCICULATION; GRAY MATTER; HAND PAIN; HAND STRENGTH; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PARALYSIS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VIRUS LOAD;

EID: 84992321787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23327812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/NXI.0000000000000113     Document Type: Article

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