El Escorial or Awaji Criteria in ALS diagnosis, what should we take?

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 217-218

  Dengler, Reinhard ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; AWAJI CRITERIA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; EL ESCORIAL CRITERIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FASCICULATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOTONEURON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHEOTOMY;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84855557356     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.06.014     Document Type: Editorial

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