HAM/TSP: association between white matter lesions on magnetic resonance imaging, clinical and cerebrospinal fluid findings

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between clinical data, white matter lesions and inflammatory cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) findings in HTLV-1 associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP). METHOD: We studied brain and cervical spinal cord on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and...

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Main Authors: Marzia Puccioni-Sohler, Emerson Gasparetto, Mauro Jorge Cabral-Castro, Carla Slatter, Cecilia M. Vidal, Romeu Domingues Cortes, Bruce R. Rosen, Caterina Mainero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO) 2012-04-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2012000400004&lng=en&tlng=en