Is tongue atrophy reversible in anti-MuSK myasthenia gravis? Six-year observation

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 701-702

  Takahashi, Hirokatsu ^a   Kawaguchi, Naoki ^a   Ito, Shoichi ^a   Nemoto, Yuko ^a   Hattori, Takamichi ^a   Kuwabara, Satoshi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MUSCLE SPECIFIC TYROSINE KINASE ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CASE REPORT; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; LETTER; LIMB WEAKNESS; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NECK; NECK MUSCLE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; TENDON REFLEX; TONGUE ATROPHY; TONGUE DISEASE;

ATROPHY; AUTOANTIBODIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PEDIGREE; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; TIME FACTORS; TONGUE;

EID: 77953699331     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2009.171793     Document Type: Letter

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