Huntington disease in a 9-year-old boy: Clinical course and neuropathologic examination

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1068-1073

  Wojaczyńska Stanek, Katarzyna ^a   Adamek, Dariusz ^b   Marszał, Elzbieta ^a   Hoffman Zacharska, Dorota ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; VALPROIC ACID;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA DETERMINATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE;

AGE OF ONSET; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN; CHILD; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FAMILY HEALTH; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; INCLUSION BODIES; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEDIGREE; POLAND; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 33846338751     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/7010.2006.00244     Document Type: Article

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