Adult-onset subacute sclerosing panencephalitis: Case reports and review of the literature

Movement Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 342-353

  Singer, Carlos ^a   Lang, Anthony E ^b   Suchowersky, Oksana ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adult onset; Measles virus; Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRADYKINESIA; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MEASLES VACCINATION; MEASLES VIRUS; MYOCLONUS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ONSET AGE; PRIMARY INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; REMISSION; RIGIDITY; SUBACUTE SCLEROSING PANENCEPHALITIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THALAMUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEASLES VIRUS; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; SUBACUTE SCLEROSING PANENCEPHALITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 0030926850     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.870120313     Document Type: Article

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