Eighty-nine-year-old man with generalised Chorea and Basal ganglia mineralization

Movement Disorders

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 362-363

  Waren, J D ^a   Kimber, T E ^a   Blumbergs, P C ^a   Thompson, P D ^a  

^a ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; FUROSEMIDE; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; PYRIDOXINE; RANITIDINE; RIFAMPICIN; SALBUTAMOL; TETRABENAZINE; THIORIDAZINE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; AUTOPSY; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; BASAL GANGLION; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DISEASE; CACHEXIA; CASE REPORT; CHOREA; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DETERIORATION; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FALLING; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TUBERCULOSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASAL GANGLIA DISEASES; BRAIN; CALCINOSIS; CHOREA; FATAL OUTCOME; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMANS; IRON; MALE; NEUTROPHILS;

EID: 0035297101     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.1061     Document Type: Article

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