Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome in patients with MELAS

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1625-1627

  Sproule, Douglas M ^a   Kaufmann, Petra ^a   Engelstad, Kristen ^a   Starc, Thomas J ^b   Hordof, Allan J ^b   De Vivo, Darryl C ^a,c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICHLOROACETIC ACID; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEEK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA DETERMINATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOLFF PARKINSON WHITE SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; WOLFF-PARKINSON-WHITE SYNDROME;

EID: 36148940942     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.64.11.1625     Document Type: Article

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