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Dropped Head Sign as the Only Symptom of Myasthenia Gravis

重症筋無力症の唯一の症状としての首下がり兆候

Author (6)： YAGUCHI Hiroaki (Neurology, Kushiro Rousai Hospital) ,  TAKEI Asako (Neurology, Hokuyukai Neurology Hospital) ,  HONMA Sanae (Neurology, Hokuyukai Neurology Hospital) ,  YAMASHITA Isao (Neurology, Hokuyukai Neurology Hospital) ,  DOI Shizuki (Minami-ku Neurology, Sapporo Minami Hospital) ,  HAMADA Takeshi (Neurology, Hokuyukai Neurology Hospital)
Material： Internal Medicine (Web)  (Intern Med (Web))
Volume： 46  Issue： 11  Page： 743-745 (J-STAGE)  Publication year： 2007 
JST Material Number： U0033A  ISSN： 1349-7235  Document type： Article
Article type： 短報  Country of issue： Japan (JPN)  Language： ENGLISH (EN)

Thesaurus term： human(primates) ,...
Semi thesaurus term： *頭部下垂徴候 ,...

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JST classification (1)： Nervous system diseases  (GN03000O)

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Terms in the title (4)： 重症筋無力症 ,  症状 ,  首下がり ,  兆候