title: [The differential diagnosis of the pharyngofacial form of myasthenia].
abstract: Based on the analysis of 1188 medical histories of patients with multiple sclerosis, 532 ones of those with various kinds of encephalopathies in the presence of chronic vertebrobasilar insufficiency, 90 records of patients with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, about 300 medical histories of patients with lateral amyotrophic sclerosis and various kinds of myopathies and amyotrophies during the period of 1987-1992, clinical features were singled out characteristic of each of the above medical conditions. Knowledge of clinical course of these permits a correct diagnosis to be made in a timely fashion. It is of interest to practitioners neuropathologists, surgeons-endocrinologists.
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Mamchich
authors.forename: S V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Peliukhovskiĭ
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004673:Encephalomyelitis, Acute Disseminated / Q000175:diagnosis; D005152:Facial Muscles; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000175:diagnosis; D009157:Myasthenia Gravis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010609:Pharyngeal Muscles; D014715:Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency / Q000175:diagnosis