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The El Escorial criteria: Strengths and weaknesses

Federica AgostaSan Raffaele Scientific Institute and Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
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Ammar Al-ChalabiKHP Centre for Neurodegeneration Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, King's College London, UK
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Massimo FilippiSan Raffaele Scientific Institute and Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
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Orla HardimanTrinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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Ryuji KajiDepartment of Neurology, Tokushima University Hospital, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Health-Biosciences, Tokushima City, Japan
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Vincent MeiningerCentre Referent Maladies Rares SLA, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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Imaharu NakanoDepartment of Neurology, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan
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Pamela ShawAcademic Neurology, University of Sheffield, UK
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Jeremy ShefnerSUNY Upstate Medical University Syracuse, New York, USA
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Leonard H. van den BergDepartment of Neurology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Albert LudolphDepartment of Neurology, University of Ulm, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
& The WFN Research Group on ALS/MND show all
Pages 1-7 | Received 13 Mar 2014, Accepted 08 Sep 2014, Published online: 08 Dec 2014

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