Primary lateral sclerosis as a phenotypic manifestation of familial ALS
Primary lateral sclerosis as a phenotypic manifestation of familial ALS
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DOI:
10.1212/01.wnl.0000162033.47893.f7
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发表时间:
2005-05-24
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影响因子:
9.9
通讯作者:
Van den Berg, LH
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作者:
Brugman, F;Wokke, JHJ;Van den Berg, LH
Primary lateral sclerosis (PLS) is a diagnosis of exclusion in patients with progressive spinobulbar spasticity and could be part of the clinical spectrum of ALS. Unlike ALS, which is familial in 5 to 10 % of the cases, PLS has been described as a sporadic disorder in adults. The authors report two patients with PLS from unrelated SOD1-negative familial ALS families. These observations provide further evidence that PLS can be linked pathophysiologically to ALS.