A 54-year-old man with action myoclonus, Parkinsonism and epilepsy

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 999-1007

  Yoshioka, Akira ^a   Saiki, Shinji ^a   Yamaya, Yoko ^a   Kanemoto, Masumi ^a   Hirose, Genjiro ^a  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Action myoclonus; Epilepsy; Fingerprint profiles; Kufs' disease; Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; DEMENTIA; EPILEPSY; GAIT DISORDER; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEMIPARESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MYOCLONUS; NEURONAL CEROID LIPOFUSCINOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSONISM; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREMOR;

BRAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCLONUS; NEURONAL CEROID-LIPOFUSCINOSES; PARKINSONIAN DISORDERS;

EID: 0032700303     PISSN: 00068969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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