Axial myopathy in myasthenia: A misleading cause of dropped head [1]

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 329-330

  Rodolico, Carmelo ^a   Messina, Sonia ^a   Toscano, Antonio ^a   Vita, Giuseppe ^a   Gaeta, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE; PYRIDOSTIGMINE;

AGED; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DELTOID MUSCLE; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHONIA; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MYASTHENIA; MYOPATHY; NERVE STIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMOMA; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE;

AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCULAR DISEASES; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NECK MUSCLES;

EID: 0842304475     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.10543     Document Type: Letter

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