Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disease with positive autoimmune indices: A case report and review of the literature

Case Reports in Medicine

Volumn 2011, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Evangelopoulos, M E ^a   Koutsis, G ^a   Andreadou, E ^a   Potagas, C ^a   Dimirakopoulos, A ^a   Sfagos, C ^a  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MESNA; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; AUTOIMMUNITY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC CYSTITIS; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; ISCHEMIA; LONGITUDINAL EXTENSIVE TRANSVERSE MYELITIS; METABOLIC DISORDER; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELITIS; MYELOOPTIC NEUROPATHY; NEOPLASM; NEUROMYELITIS OPTICA SPECTRUM DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPLEGIA; PARESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPASTICITY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THORACIC SPINE; THORAX PAIN;

EID: 84996476267     PISSN: 16879627     EISSN: 16879635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2011/393568     Document Type: Review

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