Pattern of spread and prognosis in lower limb-onset ALS

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 369-373

  Turner, Martin R ^a   Brockington, Alice ^b   Scaber, Jakub ^a   Hollinger, Hannah ^b   Marsden, Rachael ^a   Shaw, Pamela J ^b   Talbot, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Prognostic; Survival

Indexed keywords

RILUZOLE;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LEG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT PLANNING; DISEASE COURSE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ONSET AGE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SURVIVAL; TIME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77953754798     PISSN: 17482968     EISSN: 1471180X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17482960903420140     Document Type: Article

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