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Radiotherapy treatment of sialorrhea in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis requiring non-invasive ventilation

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Acknowledgments

Supported by the French Government program “Investissement d’Avenir” ANR-10-AIHU 06. We thank the patients and their relatives for their participation in the study. We thank Dr Sylvie Delanian for her contribution in the design of the radiotherapy protocol (department of radiotherapy, Centre Clinique de la Porte de Saint Cloud). We thank the Centre Clinique de la Porte de Saint Cloud’s physicists for their advices, and Cyrille Boguszewski with paramedical team for their work with patients. We thank Dr François Salachas, Dr Thimotée Lenglet and Prof Vincent Meiniger (Paris ALS Center) who recruited the patients.

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  1. Groupe hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Département des Maladies du Système Nerveux, AP-HP, 75013, Paris, France

    Maria del Mar Amador & Pierre-François Pradat

  2. Service de Radiothérapie, Centre Clinique de la Porte de Saint-Cloud, 92100, Boulogne-Billancourt, France

    Avi Assouline

  3. INSERM, UMRS1158 Neurophysiologie respiratoire expérimentale et clinique, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, 75013, Paris, France

    Jésus Gonzalez-Bermejo

  4. Service de Pneumologie et Réanimation Médicale (Département “R3S”), Groupe hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, 75013, Paris, France

    Jésus Gonzalez-Bermejo

  5. Laboratoire d’Imagerie Biomédicale, CNRS, INSERM, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, 75013, Paris, France

    Pierre-François Pradat

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Amador, M.d., Assouline, A., Gonzalez-Bermejo, J. et al. Radiotherapy treatment of sialorrhea in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis requiring non-invasive ventilation. J Neurol 262, 1981–1983 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-015-7848-7

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