Differential diagnosis in ptosis and ophthalmoplegia: mitochondrial disease or myasthenia?

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Published in J Neurol on March 14, 2007

Authors

Roger G Whittaker, Andrew M Schaefer, Robert W Taylor, Douglass M Turnbull

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