Therapeutic Efficacy of Interferon .BETA.-1b in Japanese Patients with Optic-Spinal Multiple Sclerosis
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Therapeutic efficacy of interferon β-1b in Japanese patients with optic-spinal multiple sclerosis.
Optic neuritis and myelitis are manifestations in both multiple sclerosis (MS) and neuromyelitis optica (NMO). But unlike MS, NMO is characterized by severe optic neuritis, longitudinally extensive and transverse myelitis, and the presence of aquaporin-4 antibody. Since patients with optic neuritis and myelitis have often been diagnosed with "optic-spinal MS (OSMS)" in Asia, it was obscure whet...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0040-8727,1349-3329
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.223.211