Single-fiber electromyography in limb and facial muscles in muscle-specific kinase antibody and acetylcholine receptor antibody myasthenia gravis

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 568-570

  Farrugia, Maria Elena ^a   Kennett, Robin P ^a   Newsom Davis, John ^a   Hilton Jones, David ^a   Vincent, Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Musk antibody; Myasthenia gravis; Seronegative myasthenia gravis; Single fiber electromyography

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; MUSCLE ANTIBODY; MUSCLE SPECIFIC KINASE ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM COMMUNIS MUSCLE; FACE MUSCLE; HUMAN; LEG MUSCLE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; ORBICULARIS ORIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE FIBER ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANTIBODIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXTREMITIES; FACIAL MUSCLES; HUMANS; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC;

EID: 33645059844     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20491     Document Type: Article

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