Two cases of LENAS: Diagnosis by MRI and biopsy [5]

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 254, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1453-1454

  Mayer, B ^a   Oelschlaeger, C ^a   Keyvani, K ^b   Niederstadt, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN BIOPSY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GAIT DISORDER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MEMORY DISORDER; MITOCHONDRIAL ENCEPHALOMYOPATHY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AXONS; BIOPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY, PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROGLIA;

EID: 36149001713     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-007-0541-8     Document Type: Letter

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