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Amyotrophy in prion diseases.
Archives of neurology - 1 Jan 2000
Worrall B B, Rowland L P, Chin S S, Mastrianni J A
Abstract excerpt
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis was once thought to be caused by persistent viral infection, partly because some patients with transmissible Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease showed prominent amyotrophy. However, in the past 15 years there has been little interest in the amyotrophy in prion diseases, and the possible link to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis has been eschewed. We analyzed case reports of prion disease...
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