MIDD and MELAS: A clinical spectrum

Internal Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 276-277

  Takeshima, Takao ^a   Nakashima, Kenji ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deafness; Encephalopathy; Mitochondrial diseases; Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA); Myopathy

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SUMATRIPTAN;

AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; EDITORIAL; ENCEPHALOMYOPATHY; GENE MUTATION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MATERNALLY INHERITED DIABETES AND DEAFNESS; MELAS SYNDROME; MITOCHONDRIAL MYOPATHY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOSIS; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; SEIZURE; SHORT STATURE; STROKE; VOMITING;

DEAFNESS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MELAS SYNDROME; MUTATION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 18644376040     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.44.276     Document Type: Editorial

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