Consciousness disturbances in megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts

Neuropediatrics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 211-214

  Bugiani, M ^a   Moroni, I ^a   Bizzi, A ^a   Nardocci, N ^a   Bettecken, T ^b   Gartner J ^c   Uziel, Graziella ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coma; Leukoencephalopathy; MLC

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INFANT; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MEGALENCEPHALIC LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY WITH SUBCORTICAL CYST SYNDROME; MLC1 GENE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT;

EID: 0141625956     PISSN: 0174304X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-42209     Document Type: Article

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