Square-wave jerks and smooth pursuit impairment as subtle early signs of brain involvement in Langerhans' cell histiocytosis

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 286-290

  Anagnostou, Evangelos ^a,b   Papageorgiou, Sokratis G ^a   Potagas, Constantinos ^a   Alexakis, Theodoros ^a   Kalfakis, Nikolaos ^a   Anastasopoulos, Dimitri ^b  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b School of Nursing   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Early signs; Langerhans' cell histiocytosis; Neuroophthalmology; Smooth pursuit; Square wave jerks

Indexed keywords

CLADRIBINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM INJURY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HUMAN; INFRARED OCULOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROOPHTHALMOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSCILLOPSIA; RELAPSE; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; SQUARE WAVE JERK; STABILOGRAPHY;

ARTICULATION DISORDERS; BRAIN DISEASES; CALORIC TESTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENTS; GADOLINIUM; HISTIOCYTOSIS, LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PURSUIT, SMOOTH; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 39749105889     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2007.10.008     Document Type: Article

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