Krabbe's disease presenting as a peripheral neuropathy

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1024-1028

  Marks, Harold G ^a   Scavina, Mena T ^a   Kolodny, Edwin H ^c   Palmieri, Michael ^b   Childs, Judith ^a  

^a NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Galactocerebroside beta galactosidase; Krabbe's disease; Peripheral neuropathy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BABINSKI REFLEX; CASE REPORT; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GLOBOID CELL LEUKODYSTROPHY; HUMAN; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE BIOPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCOLIOSIS; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKODYSTROPHY, GLOBOID CELL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDIAN NERVE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES;

EID: 0030746871     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199708)20:8<1024::AID-MUS13>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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