title: [Rapid course amyotrophic lateral sclerosis].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Ajkai Városi Kórház Pathologiai Osztálya.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krutsay
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Jakubovits
mesh_terms: D000690:Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000473:pathology; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000473:pathology; D009410:Nerve Degeneration; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000209:etiology; D011712:Pyramidal Tracts / Q000473:pathology; D012019:Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy / Q000209:etiology; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000473:pathology