Patient with late-onset Wilson's disease: Deterioration with penicillamine [8]

Movement Disorders

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 290-291

  Sohtaoglu, Melis ^a   Ergin, Hayal ^a   Özekmekçi, Sibel ^a   Gökdemir, Selim ^a   Sonsuz, Abdullah ^a   Arici, Ceyhun ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; PENICILLAMINE; ZINC;

AGED; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COPPER BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; LIVER BIOPSY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MONOTHERAPY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; STARTLE REFLEX; WILSON DISEASE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHELATING AGENTS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEPATOLENTICULAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; PENICILLAMINE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33847755529     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21201     Document Type: Letter

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