Alternating hemiplegia of childhood: A syndrome inherited with an autosomal dominant trait

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 833-836

  Kanavakis, Emmanuel ^a   Xaidara, Athina ^a   Papathanasiou Klontza, Dimitra ^a   Papadimitriou, Alexandros ^b   Velentza, Stavroula ^c   Youroukos, Sotiris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; FLUNARIZINE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ALTERNATING HEMIPLEGIA; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOGENETICS; DNA DETERMINATION; DYSTONIA; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; MITOCHONDRION; MOTHER; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; DYSTONIA; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; FLUNARIZINE; GENES, DOMINANT; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PEDIGREE; SEIZURES; SYNDROME;

EID: 0344899987     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162203001543     Document Type: Article

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