A long-term prospective study of the natural course of sporadic adult-onset lower motor neuron syndromes

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 751-757

  Van Den Berg Vos, Renske M ^a,d   Visser, Jeldican ^a   Kalmijn, Sandra ^b   Fischer, Kathelijn ^b   De Visser, Marianne ^a   De Jong, Vianney ^a   De Haan, Rob J ^a   Franssen, Hessel ^c   Wokke, John H J ^c   Van Den Berg, Leonard H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d ONZE LIEVE VROUWE GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR NEURON SYNDROME; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EXTREMITIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY PARALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67149131872     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneurol.2009.91     Document Type: Article

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