Dropped head syndrome as prominent clinical feature in MuSK-positive Myasthenia Gravis with thymus hyperplasia

Neuromuscular Disorders

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 175-177

  Spengos, Konstantinos ^a   Vassilopoulou, Sofia ^a   Papadimas, Georgios ^a   Tsivgoulis, Georgios ^a   Karandreas, Nikos ^a   Zambelis, Thomas ^a   Manta, Panagiota ^a  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dropped head; MuSK positive Myasthenia Gravis; Thymus hyperplasia

Indexed keywords

MUSCLE SPECIFIC TYROSINE KINASE; PREDNISONE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; PYRIDOSTIGMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DELTOID MUSCLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DROPPED HEAD SYNDROME; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NECK MUSCLE; NERVE DEGENERATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA;

ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NECK MUSCLES; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 39649115398     PISSN: 09608966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2007.09.007     Document Type: Article

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