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Chronic progressive cervical myelopathy with HTLV-I infection: Variant form of HAM/TSP?
Neurology - 12 Oct 2004
Umehara F, Nagatomo S, Yoshishige K, Saito M, Furukawa Y, Usuku K, Osame M
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the role of human T-lymphotrophic virus type I (HTLV-I) infection in four patients who developed slowly progressive myelopathy with abnormal MRI lesions in the cervical cord levels. METHODS: Clinical and neuroradiologic examinations were performed, and the odds that an HTLV-I-infected individual of specified genotype, age, and provirus load had HTLV-I-associated myelopathy (HAM)/tropical...
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