Quantitative myasthenia gravis score: Assessment of responsiveness and longitudinal validity

Neurology

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1968-1970

  Bedlack, Richard S ^a   Simel, D L ^a   Bosworth, H ^a   Samsa, G ^a   Tucker Lipscomb, B ^a   Sanders, D B ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NERVE POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20444402586     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000163988.28892.79     Document Type: Article

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