PEDIATRICS Vol. 1 No. 4 April 1948, pp. 472-477
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MYASTHENIA GRAVIS IN YOUNG CHILDREN

Report of Three Cases—One Congenital

J. ROBERT BOWMAN M.D.1

1 Surgical Service, The Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass., and Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School.

Three cases of myasthenia gravis occurring in young children have been presented.

All infants and children having ptosis of the eyelids should be given the "prostigmin test."

Myasthenic symptoms and signs were evident at birth in Case I, and this is the first case of congenital myasthenia gravis to be reported in the medical literature.

Submitted on November 24, 1947