Unified Wilson's Disease Rating Scale - A proposal for the neurological scoring of Wilson's disease patients

Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-12

  Członkowska, Anna ^a,b   Tarnacka, Beata ^a   Möller, Jens Carsten ^c   Leinweber, Barbara ^c   Bandmann, Oliver ^d   Woimant, France ^e   Oertel, Wolfgang H ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e HÔPITAL LARIBOISIÈRE   (France)

Author keywords

Neurological scoring; Unified Wilson's Disease Scale; Wilson's disease

Indexed keywords

CERULOPLASMIN; COPPER; PENICILLAMINE; TRIENTINE; ZINC SULFATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BARTHEL INDEX; CERULOPLASMIN BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; COPPER BLOOD LEVEL; DATA BASE; DYSTONIA; EUROPE; FEMALE; FRANCE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POLAND; RATING SCALE; UNIFIED PARKINSON DISEASE RATING SCALE; WILSON DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HEPATOLENTICULAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33847793650     PISSN: 00283843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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