Cerebral lactic acidosis correlates with neurological impairment in MELAS

Neurology

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1297-1302

  Kaufmann, P ^a   Shungu, D C ^a   Sano, M C ^a,b   Jhung, S ^a   Engelstad, K ^a   Mitsis, E ^a   Mao, X ^a   Shanske, S ^a   Hirano, M ^a   DiMauro, S ^a   De Vivo, Darryl C ^a,c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAMILY; HUMAN; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MITOCHONDRIAL ENCEPHALOMYOPATHY; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; STROKE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 11144355448     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000120557.83907.A8     Document Type: Article

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