Rapid course amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Krutsay, M.; Jakubovits, E.
Orvosi Hetilap 134(40): 2209-2211
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0030-6002 PMID: 7692367 Document Number: 417718
The case of a 58-year-old woman is reported, whose illness began with a pain in the left shoulder. Later a spastic palsy developed in the hands, and a flaccid one in the arms and lower limbs. After a treatment for 12 months she died from respiratory failure. The motor nerve cells in the spinal cord, brainstem and cerebral cortex together with the pyramidal tracts had degenerated symmetrically.