Occurrence of and mortality from childhood neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses in Norway

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 917-922

  Augestad, Liv Berit ^a,b   Flanders, William Dana ^a,c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Tambartun National Resource Center for the Visually Impaired   (Norway)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEATH; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEURONAL CEROID LIPOFUSCINOSIS; NORWAY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEURONAL CEROID-LIPOFUSCINOSES; NORWAY; PREVALENCE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33846273768     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/08830738060210110801     Document Type: Article

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