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

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  1. Mitochondrial Research Group, School of Neurology Neurobiology and Psychiatry, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK

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

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Whittaker, R.G., Schaefer, A.M., Taylor, R.W. et al. Differential diagnosis in ptosis and ophthalmoplegia: mitochondrial disease or myasthenia?. J Neurol 254, 1138–1139 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-006-0484-5

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