Facial onset sensory and motor neuronopathy (FOSMN syndrome): A novel syndrome in neurology

Brain

Volumn 129, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3384-3390

  Vucic, S ^a   Tian, D ^b   Chong, P Siao Tick ^b   Cudkowicz, M E ^b   Hedley Whyte, E T ^b   Cros, D ^b  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

FOSMN syndrome; Motoneuron disease; Sensory neuropathy; Syringomyelia

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; FACIAL ONSET SENSORY AND MOTOR NEUROPATHY; FASCICULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOGLOSSAL NUCLEUS; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LEPROMATOUS LEPROSY; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; ONSET AGE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; SPINAL GANGLION; SYRINGOMYELIA; TANGIER DISEASE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

ADULT; FACE; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL NERVES; SYNDROME;

EID: 33845340806     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awl258     Document Type: Article

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