Unusual early-onset Huntington's disease

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 429-432

  Vargas, Antonio P ^a   Carod Artal, Francisco Javier ^a   Bomfim, Denise ^a   Vázquez Cabrera, Carolina ^a   Dantas Barbosa, Carmela ^a  

^a SARAH NETWORK OF REHABILITATION HOSPITALS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CLONAZEPAM; CYTOSINE; GUANOSINE; LEVODOPA; VALPROIC ACID;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRADYKINESIA; CASE REPORT; CHOREA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSTONIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; HYPOKINESIA; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PARKINSONISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RIGIDITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SPASTICITY;

EID: 0038782144     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/08830738030180061301     Document Type: Article

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