Hypomyelinating leukoencephalopathy with paroxysmal tonic upgaze and absence of psychomotor development

Movement Disorders

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 226-230

  Blumkin, Lubov ^a,b   Lev, Dorit ^a,b   Watemberg, Nathan ^a,b   Lerman Sagie, Tally ^a,b  

^a WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Extra pyramidal signs; Hypomyelinating leukoencephalopathy; Paroxysmal tonic upward eye deviation

Indexed keywords

MYELIN;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; JEW; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; MYELINATION; NEWBORN PERIOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; PYRAMIDAL SIGN; ULTRASOUND;

BASAL GANGLIA DISEASES; BRAIN; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; MYELIN SHEATH; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; OPTIC DISK; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS;

EID: 33847700525     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21277     Document Type: Article

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