Late-onset monomelic amyotrophy in a Caucasian woman

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 115-119

  Patel, Dharmesh R ^a   Knepper, Laurie ^b   Jones Jr , H Royden ^a  

^a LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BERKSHIRE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyotrophy; Hirayama disease; Monomelic; O'Sullivan McLeod syndrome; Spinal muscular atrophy

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HIRAYAMA DISEASE; HUMAN; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; O' SULLIVAN MCLEOD SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

AGE OF ONSET; ARM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37749044769     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20811     Document Type: Article

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