Corticobasal degeneration syndrome with basal ganglia calcification: Fahr's disease as a corticobasal look-alike?

Movement Disorders

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 563-567

  Warren, Jason D ^a   Mummery, Catherine J ^a   Al Din, Amir S ^b   Brown, Peter ^a   Wood, Nicholas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PINDERFIELDS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corticobasal degeneration; Fahr's disease; Intracranial calcification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; BRADYKINESIA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION; DENTATE NUCLEUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSMETRIA; FAHR DISEASE; GAZE PARALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; WHITE MATTER;

BASAL GANGLIA DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036589905     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.10122     Document Type: Article

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