Young slow-progressing ALS patients are at higher risk of inappropriate and disease-quickening surgeries

Susana PintoTranslational Clinical Physiology Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Institute of Physiology – Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon

Mamede de CarvalhoTranslational Clinical Physiology Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Institute of Physiology – Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon;Department of Neurosciences, Hospital de Santa Maria-CHLN, Lisbon, PortugalCorrespondence[email protected]

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