[Rapid course amyotrophic lateral sclerosis].
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.
Krutsay
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Ajkai Városi Kórház Pathologiai Osztálya.
Jakubovits
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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