Clinical presentation of juvenile Huntington disease

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-9

  Ruocco, Heloísa H ^a   Lopes Cendes, Iscia ^a   Laurito, Tiago L ^a   Li, Li M ^a   Cendes, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atrophy; Basal ganglia; Dynamic mutations; Genotype phenotype correlation; Neurodegenerative disorder

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELE; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BRADYKINESIA; BRAIN SIZE; CASE REPORT; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CHOREA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSARTHRIA; DYSMETRIA; DYSTONIA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INHERITANCE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUTAMEN; PYRAMIDAL SIGN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RIGIDITY; SCINTISCANNING; SEIZURE; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

EID: 33646457048     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: 16784227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-282x2006000100002     Document Type: Article

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