Kennedy disease: Avoiding misdiagnosis

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 893-894

  Paparounas, Konstantinos ^a   Gotsi, Anne ^b   Syrrou, Maria ^b   Akritidis, Nikolaos ^b  

^a G HATZIKOSTA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FAMILY HISTORY; GENETIC COUNSELING; GYNECOMASTIA; HUMAN; KENNEDY DISEASE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENDON REFLEX; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GYNECOMASTIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; WASTING SYNDROME;

EID: 0038459250     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.60.6.893     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. Kennedy WR, Alter M, Sung JH. Progressive proximal spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy of late on-set: a sex-linked recessive trait. Neurology. 1968; 18:671-680.
2. La Spada AR, Wilson EM, Lubahn DB, Harding AE, Fischbeck KH. Androgen receptor gene mutations in X-linked spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy. Nature. 1991;352:77-79.
3. Ferlini A, Patroso MC, Guidetti D, et al. Androgen receptor gene (CAG) repeat analysis in the differential diagnosis between Kennedy disease and other motor neuron disorders. Am J Med Genet. 1995;55:105-111.
4. Parboosingh JS, Figlewicz DA, Krizus A, et al. Spinobulbar muscular atrophy can mimic ALS: the importance of genetictesting in male patients with atypical ALS. Neurology. 1997;49:568-572.