Increasing incidence of myasthenia gravis among elderly in British Columbia, Canada

Neurology

Volumn 76, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 1526-1528

  Pakzad, Zahra ^a   Aziz, Tariq ^a   Oger, Joel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANADA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NOTE; ONSET AGE; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS;

EID: 79955492922     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e318217e735     Document Type: Article

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