Case of methylmalonic acidemia presenting clinically Leigh encephalopathy

No To Hattatsu

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 324-329

  Ito, Hiromichi ^a   Mori, Kenji ^a   Ito, Michinori ^a,b   Naito, Etsuo ^a   Yokota, Ichiro ^a   Kuroda, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLMALONIC ACID; PYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; THIAMINE;

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENERGY YIELD; HUMAN; LEIGH DISEASE; MALE; METHYLMALONIC ACIDEMIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY;

BRAIN; HUMANS; INFANT; LEIGH DISEASE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METHYLMALONIC ACID; METHYLMALONYL-COA MUTASE; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY;

EID: 3142619383     PISSN: 00290831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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