"Jaw drop" as an atypical manifestation of Kennedy's disease;»Tab af kæben« som atypisk debutsymptom ved Kennedys syndrom

Ugeskrift for Laeger

Volumn 167, Issue 35, 2005, Pages 3310-3311

  Larsen, Katja ^a   Smith, Torben Aagaard ^a  

^a Neurologisk Afdeling   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FASCICULATION; HUMAN; JAW; KENNEDY DISEASE; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; RECEPTOR GENE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYNDROME DELINEATION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; JAW; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL;

EID: 24144468212     PISSN: 00415782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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