Effect of immunotherapy in myelitis with atopic diathesis

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 227, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 39-47

  Murai, Hiroyuki ^a   Arahata, Hajime ^a   Osoegawa, Manabu ^a   Ochi, Hirofumi ^a   Minohara, Motozumi ^a   Taniwaki, Takayuki ^a   Tobimatsu, Shozo ^a   Mihara, Futoshi ^a   Tsuruta, Yuko ^a,b   Inaba, Shoichi ^b   Kira, Jun Ichi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atopy; Corticosteroid; IVIG; Myelitis; Plasma exchange; Treatment

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOPIC MYELITIS; ATOPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MYELITIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; EOSINOPHILS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELITIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PLASMA EXCHANGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 8544257023     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2004.08.001     Document Type: Article

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