Sporadic lower motor neuron disease with adult onset: Classification of subtypes

Brain

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1036-1047

  Van den Berg Vos, R M ^a   Visser, J ^c   Franssen, H ^b   De Visser, M ^c   De Jong, J M B V ^c   Kalmijn, S ^a   Wokke, J H J ^a   Van den Berg, L H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Lower motor neuron disease; Motor neuron disease; Multifocal motor neuropathy; Progressive spinal muscular atrophy

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0242584410     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awg117     Document Type: Article

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