Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome: An update and results of interferon-α studies

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 900-907

  Goutières, Françoise ^a   Aicardi, Jean ^c   Barth, Peter G ^d   Lebon, Pierre ^b  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON;

AICARDI GOUTIERES SYNDROME; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BRAIN DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMYELINATION; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ATROPHY; BASAL GANGLION; BLOOD; BRAIN; CALCINOSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHRONIC DISEASE; GENETICS; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; SYNDROME;

ATROPHY; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERFERON-ALPHA; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031593632     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.410440608     Document Type: Article

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