Bilateral Abductor Weakness in a Woman
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Ataxia and weakness in a young woman.
A 28-year-old woman presented with slowly progressive ataxia and signs of upper and lower motor neuron dysfunction. She had no family history of neurologic disease. Neuroimaging study results were unremarkable, and the diagnosis remained obscure for several years. The differential diagnosis of motor system degeneration in a young adult is broad but focuses on inherited disorders that may have l...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1929
ISSN: 0035-9157
DOI: 10.1177/003591572902200942