Juvenile myasthenia: Diagnosis and treatment

Paediatric Drugs

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 161-169

  Anlar, Banu ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MEPREDNISONE; NEOSTIGMINE; PYRIDOSTIGMINE;

AUTOIMMUNITY; BRADYCARDIA; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FASCICULATION; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MIOSIS; MUSCLE CRAMP; MYASTHENIA; NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION; OSTEOMALACIA; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION; REVIEW; SALIVATION DISORDER; THYMECTOMY;

EID: 0034091437     PISSN: 11745878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00128072-200002030-00001     Document Type: Review

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