Ptosis and bulbar onset: an unusual phenotype of familial ALS?
Fabiola De MarchiL CorradoE BersanoM F SarnelliV SolaraS D'AlfonsoR CantelloL MazziniPublished in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2017)
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder of upper and lower motor neurons that usually spare the oculomotor nerves. Here, we describe a case of two siblings with a familial bulbar-onset ALS both with ptosis manifested at the onset of the disease.