Review of 23 patients affected by the stiff man syndrome: clinical subdivision into stiff trunk (man) syndrome, stiff limb syndrome, and progressive encephalomyelitis with rigidity.

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Published in J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry on November 01, 1998

Authors

R A Barker1, T Revesz, M Thom, C D Marsden, P Brown

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1: National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK.

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