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Ptosis and bulbar onset: an unusual phenotype of familial ALS?
Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology - 1 Feb 2018
De Marchi Fabiola, Corrado L, Bersano E, Sarnelli M F, Solara V, D'Alfonso S, Cantello R, Mazzini L
Abstract excerpt
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder of upper and lower motor neurons that usually spare the oculomotor nerves. Here, we describe a case of two siblings with a familial bulbar-onset ALS both with ptosis manifested at the onset of the disease.
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