Motor neurone disease: the nature of the pathogenic mechanism
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The management of motor neurone disease.
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: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1974
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.37.9.1036