Alpers syndrome with prominent white matter changes

Brain and Development

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 295-300

  Bao, Xinhua ^a   Wu, Ye ^a   Wong, Lee Jun C ^b   Zhang, Yuehua ^a   Xiong, Hui ^a   Chou, Ping Chieh ^b   Truong, Cavatina K ^b   Jiang, Yuwu ^a   Qin, Jiong ^a   Yuan, Yun ^a   Lin, Qing ^a   Wu, Xiru ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpers syndrome; Leukoencephalopathy; POLG1 mutations

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LAMOTRIGINE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHENOBARBITAL; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

ALPERS DISEASE; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN DEGENERATION; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; CHINESE; DEMYELINATION; EDEMA; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PSYCHOMOTOR RETARDATION; SCHOOL CHILD; WHITE MATTER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHINA; DIFFUSE CEREBRAL SCLEROSIS OF SCHILDER; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED;

EID: 40249098630     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2007.08.009     Document Type: Article

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