Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients and ocular ptosis

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 168-170

  Pinto, Susana ^a   de Carvalho, Mamede ^a,b  

^a Inst of Pharmacol and Therapeutics   (Portugal)

^b HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Bulbar onset; Jitter; Myasthenia gravis; Ptosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; PREDNISOLONE; PYRIDOSTIGMINE; STEROID;

AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; OCULAR MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; PTOSIS; THYMOMA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VOMITING;

AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BLEPHAROPTOSIS; DIPLOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS;

EID: 38149065337     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2007.08.022     Document Type: Article

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