A clinical staging classification for type C niemann-pick disease

Neurology

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 1992, Pages 2286-2290

  Higgins, Joseph J ^a   Patterson, M C ^a   Dambrosia, J M ^a   Pikus, A T ^b   Pentchev, P G ^a   Sato, S ^b   Brady, R O ^a   Barton, N W ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; CHOLESTEROL; COLESTYRAMINE; MEVINOLIN; NICOTINIC ACID;

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL ESTERIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; FOAM CELL; GAZE PARALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYSOSOME; MORTALITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NIEMANN PICK DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLESTEROL ESTERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NIEMANN-PICK DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0026621090     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.42.12.2286     Document Type: Article

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