Primary lateral sclerosis: Disease, syndrome, both or neither? Editorial

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-4

  Rowland, L P ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; AUTOPSY; EDITORIAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0032720025     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(99)00183-5     Document Type: Editorial

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