ALS, motor neuron disease, and related disorders: A personal approach to diagnosis and management

Seminars in Neurology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 75-87

  Pascuzzi, Robert M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ALS; Kennedy's disease; Management of motor neuron disease; Multifocal motor neuropathy

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CREATINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHOTREXATE; RILUZOLE; TESTOSTERONE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; HUMAN; KENNEDY DISEASE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOTOR NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036071733     PISSN: 02718235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-33295     Document Type: Review

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