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Current concept of neuromyelitis optica (NMO) and NMO spectrum disorders.
Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) has been described as a disease clinically characterised by severe optic neuritis (ON) and transverse myelitis (TM). Other features of NMO include female preponderance, longitudinally extensive spinal cord lesions (>3 vertebral segments), and absence of oligoclonal IgG bands . In spite of these differences from multiple sclerosis (MS), the relationship between NMO and...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Rinsho Shinkeigaku
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0009-918X,1882-0654
DOI: 10.5692/clinicalneurol.49.902