RT Book, Section
A1 Ropper, Allan H.
A1 Samuels, Martin A.
A1 Klein, Joshua P.
A1 Prasad, Sashank
SR Print(0)
ID 1162601229
T1 Disorders of the Neuromuscular Junction, Myotonias, and Persistent Muscle Fiber Activity
T2 Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology, 11e
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071842617
LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1162601229
RD 2024/04/19
AB These  disorders  are  discussed  together  because  they  cause  weakness  or  changes  in  salience  of  the  musculature  but  are  not  strictly  speaking  disease  of  muscle,  instead  having  their  origins  in  problems  with  the  terminal  motor  axons  or  neuromuscular  junction,  the  ends  of  the  line  in  motor  transmission,  so  to  speak.  Their  pathophysiology  and  clinical  features  sometimes  overlap  with  immune  mechanisms  that  underlie  a  number  of  them.  In  most  ways,  however,  they  stand  apart  from  each  other  but  are  most  efficiently  described  together  here.