The natural history and ophthalmic involvement in childhood myasthenia gravis at the hospital for sick children

Ophthalmology

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 504-510

  Mullaney, Paul ^a   Vajsar, Jiri ^a   Smith, Robert ^a   Buncic, J Raymond ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISONE; PYRIDOSTIGMINE;

ADOLESCENT; AMBLYOPIA; APNEA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE DISEASE; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEWBORN; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STRABISMUS; SYMPTOM; THYMECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; BLEPHAROPTOSIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS, NEONATAL; MYASTHENIC SYNDROMES, CONGENITAL; ONTARIO; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PREDNISONE; PYRIDOSTIGMINE BROMIDE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRABISMUS;

EID: 0034027273     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-6420(99)00138-4     Document Type: Article

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