Megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter and cystic formation;Leucoencefalopatia megalencefálica com substância branca evanescente e cistos subcorticais

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1058-1062

  Araújo Oliveira, Hélio ^a,b,d   Machado, Marbene Guedes ^a,c   De Jesus, Alan Chester Feitosa ^a   De Oliveira, Emanoella Faro ^a   Pereira Oliveira, Arthur Maynart ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SERGIPE   (Brazil)

^b Departamento de Medicina   (Brazil)

^c Serviço de Neurologia

^d UFS ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Leukoencephalopathy; Megalencephaly; Van der Knaap syndrome; Vanishing white matter

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MALE; MEGALENCEPHALIC LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SYNDROME; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 10944241762     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-282x2004000600023     Document Type: Article

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