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Rheumatoid arthritis and motor neurone disease--an association?
W Schady1, R A Metcalfe, P J Holt
1University Department of Neurology, Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK.
British Journal of Rheumatology
|February 1, 1989
Abstract:
Three patients with rheumatoid arthritis and motor neurone disease are presented. The neurological syndrome supervened after 2, 19 and 23 years of polyarthritis and led to death within 4 years. The diagnosis of motor neurone disease was confirmed at post mortem in one case. Common immunological mechanisms may account for this previously unreported association.