Hirayama Disease - A Variant of Motor Neuron Disease and Role of Flexion MRI in Diagnosis

Hirayama Disease - A Variant of Motor Neuron Disease and Role of Flexion MRI in Diagnosis

Hirayama disease is a monomyelic variant of motor neuron disease (MND) and has distinctive features of male predominance, asymmetric involvement of upper extremities with a self limiting course. Flexion MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) forms the main stay for diagnosis of this condition. Here we rep...

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Main Authors: Sanjay K Mahajan, Madan Kaushik, Rajiv Raina, Sharath Babu NM, Sushil Raghav
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Light House Polyclinic Mangalore 2013-11-01
Series:Online Journal of Health & Allied Sciences
Subjects:
Hirayama disease
Motor neuron disease
Flexion MRI
Monomyelic
Online Access:http://www.ojhas.org/issue47/2013-3-16.html

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