Management of motor neurone disease
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Management of motor neurone disease.
Motor neurone disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder leading to severe disability and death. It is clinically characterised by mixed upper and lower motor neurone involvement affecting bulbar, limb, and respiratory musculature. Recent guidelines have established diagnostic criteria and defined management of the condition. In a proportion of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis th...
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Correspondence to: Professor P N Leigh, King’s MND Care and Research Centre, Department of Neurology, Institute of Psychiatry and Guy’s King’s and St Thomas’s School of Medicine, PO Box 41, Institute of Psychiatry, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, UK; [email protected] _________________________ T he management of motor neurone disease (MND) has evolved rapidly over the last two decades. Althou...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pmj.78.926.736