Case 12-2019: A 60-Year-Old Man with Weakness and Difficulty Chewing

N Engl J Med. 2019 Apr 18;380(16):1566-1574. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1900141.

Authors

Christopher T Doughty¹, Amanda C Guidon¹, Sabrina Paganoni¹, E Tessa Hedley-Whyte¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital (C.T.D.), the Departments of Neurology (A.C.G.), Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (S.P.), and Pathology (E.T.H.-W.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital (S.P.), and the Departments of Neurology (C.T.D., A.C.G.), Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (S.P.), and Pathology (E.T.H.-W.), Harvard Medical School - all in Boston.

PMID: 30995378
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1900141

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Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis / complications
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis / diagnosis*
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis / pathology
Brain / pathology*
Diagnosis, Differential
Fatal Outcome
Humans
Male
Mastication
Middle Aged
Muscle Weakness / etiology
Nervous System Diseases / diagnosis
Neuromuscular Junction Diseases / diagnosis
Spinal Cord / pathology*