Myasthenia gravis in Ceará, Brazil: clinical and epidemiological aspects

A retrospective chart review was performed on patients diagnosed as having myasthenia gravis in Ceará State, Brazil and who were followed from October 1981 to June 2009. Clinical and epidemiologic aspects were evaluated. In this work, 122 patients were studied, of whom 85 (69.7%) were females and 37...

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Main Authors: Aline de Almeida Xavier Aguiar, André Ferrer Carvalho, Carlos Mauricio de Castro Costa, José Marcelino Aragão Fernandes, José Artur Costa D'Almeida, Luís Edmundo Teixeira de Arruda Furtado, Francisco Marcos Bezerra da Cunha
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Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO) 2010-12-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2010000600003&lng=en&tlng=en