Epilepsia partialis continua associated with a homoplasmic mitochondrial tRNA(Ser(UCN)) mutation

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 700-704

  Schuelke, Markus ^a,b   Bakker, Melan ^b   Stoltenburg, Gisela ^a   Sperner, Jürgen ^c   Von Moers, Arpad ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; DNA DETERMINATION; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MYOPATHY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; RNA; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACYL; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 0031784401     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.410440420     Document Type: Article

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