Adult onset Langerhans cell histiocytosis with progressive cerebellar ataxia and spastic paraparesis

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 725-728

  Kobessho, Hiroshi ^a   Fukunaga, Atsushi ^a   Mitsui, Shigeru ^a   Sekiguchi, Kenji ^a   Oishi, Kenichi ^a   Ishihara, Hiroyuki ^a   Kanda, Fumio ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebellar ataxia; Langerhans cell histiocytosis; Spastic paraparesis

Indexed keywords

PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIATION; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOSIS; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HUMAN; LANGERHANS CELL; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPLEGIA; SKIN BIOPSY; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA;

ADULT; BIOPSY; BRAIN; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOSIS, LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPARESIS, SPASTIC; SKIN;

EID: 33847770339     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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