An adult case of Leigh disease

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 237-240

  Malojcic, Branko ^a   Brinar, Vesna ^a   Poser, Charles ^b   Djakovic, Visnja ^a  

^a KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential diagnosis; Ketogenic diet; Lactate; Leigh disease; MRI; Pyruvate

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; LACTIC ACID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PYRUVIC ACID;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; KETOGENIC DIET; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LEIGH DISEASE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPLEGIA; QUADRIPLEGIA; RARE DISEASE; SLURRED SPEECH; SOMNOLENCE; STUPOR; TREATMENT FAILURE; URINE INCONTINENCE; VOMITING;

ADULT; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; CONVALESCENCE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; KETONE BODIES; LACTATES; LEIGH DISEASE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PYRUVIC ACID; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 2642534249     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2004.02.028     Document Type: Article

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