1. HTLV-I negative tropical spastic paraparesis: a scientific challenge
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Carlos Maurício de Castro-Costa, Herwig Carton, and Terezinha de Jesus Teixeira Santos
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myelopathies of unknown etiology ,endocrine system ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,virus diseases ,TSP ,HTLV-I ,seronegative ,medicine.disease ,Polymerase Chain Reaction ,Dermatology ,Paraparesis, Tropical Spastic ,Surgery ,Diagnosis, Differential ,PCR ,Neurology ,immune system diseases ,Tropical spastic paraparesis ,medicine ,Spastic ,Etiology ,Humans ,Neurology (clinical) ,business - Abstract
We reviewed the historical, clinical and etiological aspects of the progressive chronic spastic myelopathies of unknown etiology, disserting on the clinical similarities between HTLV-I seropositive and seronegative tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP), as well as focusing on the PCR studies of the seronegative TSP.
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- 2001
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