PMID: 7333813May 1, 1981Paper

Clinical features of amyotrophic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Italian Journal of Neurological Sciences
P DavidM L Vaccario

Abstract

The clinical features and course of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis are discussed. The data on a series of 116 patients are compared with those of the literature. The following points emerge: 1) when the disease starts before the age of 50, the prognosis is often less poor than usual; 2) the forms with spinal, and especially cervical, onset appear to be less rapid than bulbar forms; 3) in 20% of the patients survival is over 5 years. There may be some unknown factor that increases the resistance of some subject to the disease.

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