What's in a name? Lumping or splitting ALS, PLS, PMA, and the other motor neuron diseases

Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 624-625

  Rosenfeld, Jeffrey ^a   Swash, Michael ^b  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; EDITORIAL; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NOMENCLATURE; PRIMARY LATERAL SCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROGRESSIVE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; SYNDROME DELINEATION; CLASSIFICATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NOTE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 33645892000     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000205597.62054.db     Document Type: Editorial

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