Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with sarcoidosis

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 191-192

  Karacostas, Dimitris ^a   Parissis, Dimitris ^a   Michaelidou, Barbara ^a   Mavromatis, Ioannis ^a   Ropper, Allan H ^b  

^a AHEPA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b ST ELIZABETH'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; PREDNISOLONE; RILUZOLE;

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FASCICULATION; FEMALE; FOOT DISEASE; GAIT DISORDER; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GRANULOMATOSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LETTER; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SURAL NERVE; TENDON REFLEX;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SARCOIDOSIS;

EID: 34250003184     PISSN: 17482968     EISSN: 1471180X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17482960701223832     Document Type: Letter

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