Concordance between site of onset and limb dominance in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
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Concordance between site of onset and limb dominance in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
BACKGROUND Focality of onset of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is not understood. Attempts to implicate physical exercise in the aetiology of ALS have provided inconsistent results. If physical use of a limb were important in defining the site of onset, then handedness might be expected to influence the side of upper limb-onset disease and footedness likewise in lower limb-onset ALS. MET...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2010.208413