Bulbospinal muscular atrophy: Kennedy's disease

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1324-1326

  Sinnreich, Michael ^a   Klein, Christopher Jon ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; FASCICULATION; GAIT DISORDER; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; KENNEDY DISEASE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; TENDON REFLEX; X CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE;

HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL;

EID: 4043076432     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.61.8.1324     Document Type: Review

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