Motor neurone disease in the tropics: Findings from Sudan

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 46-48

  Abdulla, M N ^b   Sokrab, T E O ^a   El Tahir, A ^b   Siddig, H E ^b   Ali, M E A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NERVE CONDUCTION; SUDAN; TROPICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PROGNOSIS; SUDAN; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 0030986501     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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