Abstract:
:The dropped head syndrome occurs in a variety of neuromuscular disorders. We present a woman with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy who developed this syndrome, likely reflecting severe demyelination of nerves to cervical paraspinal muscles.
journal_name
Muscle Nervejournal_title
Muscle & nerveauthors
Hoffman D,Gutmann Ldoi
10.1002/mus.880170717subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1994-07-01 00:00:00pages
808-10issue
7eissn
0148-639Xissn
1097-4598journal_volume
17pub_type
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