Isolated dropped head due to adult-onset nemaline myopathy treated by posterior fusion

Neurology

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1504-1505

  Katirji, B ^a,b   Hachwi, R ^a   Al Shekhlee, A ^a   Cohen, M L ^a   Bohlman, H H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; CASE REPORT; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; HEAD DROP; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NECK MUSCLE; NEMALINE MYOPATHY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27644515465     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000183283.97098.d8     Document Type: Article

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