Juvenile Leigh syndrome with protracted course presenting as chronic sensory motor neuropathy, ataxia, deafness and retinitis pigmentosa: A clinicopathological report

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 218-221

  Malandrini, Alessandro ^a   Palmeri, Silvia ^a   Maria Fabrizi, Gian ^a   Marcello Villanova, ^a   Berti, Gianna ^a   Salvadori, Claudio ^a   Gardini, Giorgio ^b   Motti, Luisa ^b   Solimé, Franco ^b   Carlo Guazzi, Gian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Juvenile form; Leigh syndrome; Neuropathology; Protracted course

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEIGH DISEASE; MALE; MOTOR NEUROPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SENSORY NEUROPATHY;

ADULT; ATAXIA; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; FATAL OUTCOME; HEREDITARY MOTOR AND SENSORY NEUROPATHIES; HUMANS; LEIGH DISEASE; MALE; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA;

EID: 17144463972     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(98)00014-8     Document Type: Article

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