title: [Various regional features of the clinical picture and epidemiology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis].
abstract: An analysis of the incidence of lateral amyotrophic sclerosis (LAS) in the Samarkand region was carried out on the basis of the archive materials collected by a nervous disease clinic over 50 years (1931-1980). A total of 70 patients had been treated, with a tendency toward an increase in the number of such patients over the last two decades. There was a prevalence of patients from the indigenous population (51) in comparison with the non-indigenous one (19). People over 45 years of age contracted LAS more frequently (38 out of 70). The results of the author's own clinical observation of 23 patients are presented (1971-1980). The cervical-thoracic form of LAS occurred most frequently (18 out of 23) and the bulbar form was the most unfavourable. The need for regular epidemiologic examinations of LAS in the South of the Uzbek SSR is emphasized.
mesh_terms: D000017:ABO Blood-Group System; D000328:Adult; D000690:Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012424:Rural Population; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D013577:Syndrome; D014505:Urban Population; D014610:Uzbekistan
chemical_list: D000017:ABO Blood-Group System
vernacular_title: Nekotorye regionarnye osobennosti kliniki i épidemiologii bokovogo amiotraficheskogo skleroza.