Clinical Reasoning: A 64-year-old man with progressive paraspinal muscle weakness.

Neurology

From the Department of Postgraduate Medical Education (R.S., C.S.), Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology, University Health Network (P.A.), and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology (T.-R.K.), University of Toronto; and Department of Pathology (T.-R.K.), University Health Netwo

Published: January 2016


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