From clues to mechanisms
- 16 September 2008
- journal article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Neurology
- Vol. 71 (12), 872-873
- https://doi.org/10.1212/01.wnl.0000325992.50108.60
Abstract
In this issue of Neurology®, Sabatelli et al.5 report a distinctive phenotype among their patients with onset age 40 years or younger (“young adults”): men with predominantly upper motor neuron (UMN) involvement and longer survival. Among 57 young adult patients, 59.6% had a predominantly UMN phenotype. The ratio of men to women among those with this phenotype was …Keywords
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