Turn/amplitude analysis to assess bulbar muscle wasting in MuSK positive myasthenia

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1173-1174

  Finsterer, Josef ^a  

^a KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RITUXIMAB; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ALGORITHM; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; BULBAR PARALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTRONEUROLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE POTENTIAL; MYASTHENIA; MYOPATHY; NEUROPATHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURN AMPLITUDE ANALYSIS;

ANTI-DYSKINESIA AGENTS; BOTULINUM TOXINS; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC;

EID: 34047118697     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2006.12.018     Document Type: Letter

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