Human Immunodeficiency Virus–Associated Pure Motor Lumbosacral Polyradiculopathy
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Human immunodeficiency virus-associated pure motor lumbosacral polyradiculopathy.
BACKGROUND Neuromuscular disease is a common manifestation of human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, but isolated and severe pathology confined to the motor roots or anterior horn cells are not a recognized clinical entity. OBJECTIVE To describe the novel clinical presentation of human immunodeficiency virus-related polyradiculopathy manifesting as isol...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Neurology
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0003-9942
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.57.7.1034