Clinically biphasic myasthenia gravis with both AChR and MuSK antibodies

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 259, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2736-2739

  Rajakulendran, Sanjeev ^a,b   Viegas, Stuart ^a,c   Spillane, Jennifer ^a,b   Howard, Robin S ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; AZATHIOPRINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MUSCLE SPECIFIC KINASE ANTIBODY; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PREDNISOLONE; PYRIDOSTIGMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; BREATHING MUSCLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; MORVAN SYNDROME; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NECK MUSCLE; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SYNAPTOGENESIS; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WEAKNESS;

AUTOANTIBODIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC;

EID: 84872116863     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-012-6661-9     Document Type: Letter

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