Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis in an identical twin

Pediatrics

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1390-1394

  Park, Sarah Y ^a   Kohl, Steve ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEASLES; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBACUTE SCLEROSING PANENCEPHALITIS;

CHILD; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEASLES; SUBACUTE SCLEROSING PANENCEPHALITIS; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0032739353     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.104.6.1390     Document Type: Article

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