Mills variant motor neurone disease (MND):

Evidence-based neurology checklist on mills variant motor neurone disease (mnd):: Background This is a hemiplegic variant of MND It is possibly a variant of primary lateral sclerosis (PLS) Clinical features Differential diagnosis Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain Positron emission tomography…

Background

  • This is a hemiplegic variant of MND
  • It is possibly a variant of primary lateral sclerosis (PLS)

Clinical features

Differential diagnosis

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain

Positron emission tomography (PET) scan

References

  1. Wijesekera LC, Mathers S, Talman P, et al. Natural history and clinical features of the flail arm and flail leg ALS variants. Neurology 2009; 72:1087-1094.
  2. Rajabally YA, Hbahbih M, Abbott RJ. Hemiplegic ALS: Mills syndrome. Neurology 2005; 64:1984.
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  4. Bäumer D, Butterworth R, Menke RA, Talbot K, Hofer M, Turner MR. Progressive hemiparesis (Mills syndrome) with aphasia in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Neurology 2014; 82:457-458. 
  5. Jaiser SR, Mitra D, Williams TL, Baker MR. Mills' syndrome revisited. J Neurol 2019; 266:667-679.
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