Progressive cerebral degeneration of childhood with liver disease (Alpers Huttenlocher disease) with cytochrome oxidase deficiency presenting with epilepsia partialis continua as the first clinical manifestation

Clinical Neuropathology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 63-68

  Worle H ^a,d   Kohler B ^a   Schlote, W ^b   Winkler, P ^c   Bastanier, C K ^a  

^a Children's Hospital   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Olgahospital   (Germany)

^d OLGAHOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpers disease; Alpers Huttenlocher disease; Complex IV deficiency; Epilepsia partialis continua; Mitochondrial disorder; Progressive neuronal degeneration of childhood with liver disease

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; CLONAZEPAM; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DIAZEPAM; LAMOTRIGINE; LIDOCAINE; MITOCHONDRIAL ENZYME; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PRIMIDONE;

ADOLESCENT; ALPERS DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER DISEASE; MITOCHONDRION; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; CYTOCHROME-C OXIDASE DEFICIENCY; DIFFUSE CEREBRAL SCLEROSIS OF SCHILDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIA PARTIALIS CONTINUA; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0031919126     PISSN: 07225091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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