Adult-onset vanishing white matter leukoencephalopathy presenting as psychosis

Neurology

Volumn 68, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 1538-1539

  Denier, C ^a   Orgibet, A ^a   Roffi, F ^a   Jouvent, E ^a   Buhl, C ^a   Niel, F ^b   Boespflug Tanguy, O ^b,c   Said, G ^a   Ducreux, D ^a  

^a BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF CLERMONT FERRAND   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ATAXIA; BRAIN; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2B; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUTATION; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 34247609963     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000260701.76868.44     Document Type: Article

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