"Ice-on-eyes", a simple test for myasthenia gravis presenting with ocular symptoms

Practical Neurology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 109-111

  Reddy, Aravind R ^a   Backhouse, Oliver C ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; EDROPHONIUM CHLORIDE; ICE;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EYE DISEASE; EYE MOVEMENT; EYELID DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PTOSIS; REST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOM; THYMOMA;

BLEPHAROPTOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ICE; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS;

EID: 34147196301     PISSN: 14747758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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