Video documented follow-up of liver transplantation in Wilson's disease with predominant neurological manifestation

Movement Disorders

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1036-1038

  Suess, Thorsten ^a,b   Bokemeyer, Martin ^a   Schomerus, Georg ^a   Donnerstag, Frank ^a   Manns, Michael Peter ^a   Klempnauer, Juergen ^a   Kolbe, Hans ^a   Weissenborn, Karin ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Liver transplantation; Morbus Wilson; Video documentation

Indexed keywords

CERULOPLASMIN; COPPER; PENICILLAMINE; TRIENTINE; ZINC;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COPPER METABOLISM; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MYOCLONUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; TREMOR; VIDEORECORDING; WILSON DISEASE;

ADULT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATOLENTICULAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; THALAMUS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 34347233111     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21444     Document Type: Article

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