Long-term Outcomes of CLIPPERS (Chronic Lymphocytic Inflammation With Pontine Perivascular Enhancement Responsive to Steroids) in a Consecutive Series of 12 Patients
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Long-term outcomes of CLIPPERS (chronic lymphocytic inflammation with pontine perivascular enhancement responsive to steroids) in a consecutive series of 12 patients.
BACKGROUND Chronic lymphocytic inflammation with pontine perivascular enhancement responsive to steroids (CLIPPERS) is a central nervous system inflammatory disease. OBJECTIVE To describe the disease course of CLIPPERS. DESIGN A nationwide study was implemented to collect clinical, magnetic resonance imaging, cerebrospinal fluid, and brain biopsy specimen characteristics of patients with CL...
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1 Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN 55905, USA 2 Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN 55905, USA 3 Department of Neurology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, B.9000, Belgium 4 Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN 55905, USA 5 Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic Co...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Neurology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0003-9942
DOI: 10.1001/archneurol.2012.122