Anti-musk antibody after thymectomy in a previously seropositive myasthenic child

Neurology

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 803-804

  Saulat, Bilal ^a,b   Maertens, Paul ^a   Hamilton, William J ^a   Bassam, Bassam A ^a  

^a Mitchell Cancer Institute   (United States)

^b Bldg 3 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MUSK ANTIBODY; PYRIDOSTIGMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAMNESIS; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG INDICATION; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; LABORATORY TEST; LOW DRUG DOSE; MOTHER; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYMECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AUTOANTIBODIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PYRIDOSTIGMINE BROMIDE; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; THYMECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548137330     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000267694.45244.f4     Document Type: Article

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