Intravenous methylprednisolone in HTLV-I associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP)
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Pain in tropical spastic paraparesis/HTLV-I associated myelopathy patients.
OBJECTIVE Tropical Spastic Paraparesis/HTLV-I Associated Myelopathy (TSP/HAM) is a chronic myelopathy, and pain has been mentioned as a frequent sensory symptom in this condition. The authors aimed at analyzing this symptom in a TSP/HAM patients series. METHOD For this, 46 patients were analyzed considering demographic and clinical characteristics and complaint of pain as to verbal descriptio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0004-282X
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-282x1993000300005