Myasthenia gravis with mental retardation : Report of a case in a 10-year-old boy with special reference toelectromyographic studies, psychological evaluations, and autopsy findings - 07/10/17
Doi : 10.1016/S0022-3476(54)80066-7
Summary |
A 10-year-old male with symptoms of myasthenic crisis presented diagnostic difficulties at first, with particular reference to bulbar poliomyelitis. Subsequent tests, however, proved the case to be myasthenia gravis.
The patient was also mentally retarded as shown by his I.Q. and his performance at school. Under Prostigmine therapy he improved, not only physically but mentally, although he never attained normal mentality.
The patient died a year and twomonths after the diagnosis was established. Autopsy revealed a bronchopneumonia but no thymic involvement.
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Publié par Elsevier Masson SAS.
Vol 45 - N° 1
P. 80-88 - juillet 1954 Retour au numéro
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