Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery
Volume 111, Issue 10 , Pages 874-876 , December 2009

Cervical spondylotic amyotrophy presenting as dropped head syndrome

  • Rechdi Ahdab

      Affiliations

    • Service de Physiologie – Explorations Fonctionnelles, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, Créteil, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Physiology, Service de Physiologie – Explorations Fonctionnelles, Hôpital Henri Mondor, 51 avenue de-Lattre-de-Tassigny, 94010 Creteil, France. Tel.: +33 1 49 81 46 93; fax: +33 1 49 81 46 60.
    • ,
  • Alain Créange

      Affiliations

    • Service de Neurologie, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, Créteil, France
    • ,
  • Sandrine Benaderette

      Affiliations

    • Service de Physiologie – Explorations Fonctionnelles, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, Créteil, France
    • ,
  • Jean-Pascal Lefaucheur

      Affiliations

    • Service de Physiologie – Explorations Fonctionnelles, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, Créteil, France

Received 10 October 2008 ,Revised 3 July 2009 ,Accepted 6 July 2009.

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PII: S0303-8467(09)00173-5

doi: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2009.07.005

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery
Volume 111, Issue 10 , Pages 874-876 , December 2009

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