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February 02, 2016; 86 (5) Special Article

Practice guideline update summary: Corticosteroid treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Report of the Guideline Development Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology

David Gloss, Richard T. Moxley, Stephen Ashwal, Maryam Oskoui
First published February 1, 2016, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000002337
David Gloss
From the Department of Neurology (D.G.), Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA; Department of Neurology (R.T.M.), University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, NY; Department of Neurology (S.A.), Loma Linda University Medical Center, CA; and Departments of Pediatric and Neurology/Neurosurgery (M.O.), McGill University, Montréal, Canada.
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Richard T. Moxley III
From the Department of Neurology (D.G.), Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA; Department of Neurology (R.T.M.), University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, NY; Department of Neurology (S.A.), Loma Linda University Medical Center, CA; and Departments of Pediatric and Neurology/Neurosurgery (M.O.), McGill University, Montréal, Canada.
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From the Department of Neurology (D.G.), Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA; Department of Neurology (R.T.M.), University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, NY; Department of Neurology (S.A.), Loma Linda University Medical Center, CA; and Departments of Pediatric and Neurology/Neurosurgery (M.O.), McGill University, Montréal, Canada.
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Maryam Oskoui
From the Department of Neurology (D.G.), Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA; Department of Neurology (R.T.M.), University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, NY; Department of Neurology (S.A.), Loma Linda University Medical Center, CA; and Departments of Pediatric and Neurology/Neurosurgery (M.O.), McGill University, Montréal, Canada.
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Practice guideline update summary: Corticosteroid treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Report of the Guideline Development Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology
David Gloss, Richard T. Moxley, Stephen Ashwal, Maryam Oskoui
Neurology Feb 2016, 86 (5) 465-472; DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000002337

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