Adult-onset Alexander disease with progressive ataxia and palatal tremor

Movement Disorders

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 118-122

  Howard, Katherine L ^a   Hall, Deborah A ^a   Moon, Michelle ^a   Agarwal, Pinky ^b   Newman, Elizabeth ^c   Brenner, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Booth Gardner Parkinson's Care Center   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult onset Alexander disease; Ataxia; GFAP; Palatal tremor; PAPT

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ADULT; ALEXANDER DISEASE; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALATAL TREMOR; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREMOR;

ALEXANDER DISEASE; ATAXIA; ATROPHY; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GENOTYPE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PALATE, SOFT; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PONS; TREMOR;

EID: 39549096914     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21774     Document Type: Article

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