Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease impairs quality of life: Why? And how do we improve it?

Neurology

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 790-791

  Shy, Michael E ^a,c   Rose, Michael R ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b King's Neurosciences Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c Elliman Bldg 3206 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; MIGRAINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT FORM 36;

EID: 25444531406     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000181027.21574.df     Document Type: Editorial

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