Infantile spongiform leukoencephalopathy: Clinical and neuropathologic findings

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 217-220

  Yamashita, Sumimasa ^a   Iwamoto, Hiroko ^a   Hara, Masamichi ^b   Arai, Nobutaka ^c  

^a KANAGAWA CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEEDING DISORDER; GENETIC DISORDER; GLIOSIS; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPLASIA; INFANT; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MALE; MYELINATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NYSTAGMUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SPASTICITY; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; VACUOLES;

EID: 0036711494     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-8994(02)00427-7     Document Type: Article

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