Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) in a Chinese family: Clinical, radiological and skin biopsy features

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 304-307

  Wilder Smith, E ^a   Shen, Y ^a,b   Ng, Y K ^a   Yu, G X ^a,b   Chew, N K ^c   Tan, C T ^c   Wong, M C ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Asia; CADASIL; Cerebrovascular accident; Dementia; Notch 3 gene; Singapore; Skin biopsy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CADASIL; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHINESE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LEUKOARAIOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY;

EID: 1542284126     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2003.05.007     Document Type: Article

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