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Plasmapheresis in acute multiple sclerosis: Rationale and results

✍ Scribed by Peter C. Dau

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1991
Tongue: English
Weight: 557 KB
Volume: 6
Category: Article
ISSN: 0733-2459
DOI: 10.1002/jca.2920060405

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✦ Synopsis

Acute multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS). As listed in Table I, the lesions (plaques) are infiltrated first by perivascular and then by parenchymal T lymphocytes with a CD4' over CD8' cell type pre-Address reprint requests to

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