Epidemiology of seropositive myasthenia gravis in Greece
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Epidemiology of seropositive myasthenia gravis in Greece.
OBJECTIVES To study the epidemiological characteristics of myasthenia gravis in Greece. METHODS A population based study was carried out of seropositive myasthenia gravis in Greece for the period from 1 January 1983 to 30 June 1997; 843 patients were studied. RESULTS The average annual incidence for the period 1992-7, for which the database is complete, was 7.40/million population/year (wom...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.71.3.352