Familial leptomeningeal amyloidosis with a transthyretin variant Asp18Gly representing repeated subarachnoid haemorrhage with superficial siderosis

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1463-1466

  Jin, K ^a   Sato, S ^a   Takahashi, T ^a   Nakazaki, H ^b   Date, Y ^c   Nakazato, M ^c   Tominaga, T ^a,d   Itoyama, Y ^d   Ikeda, S ^e  

^a KOHNAN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; PREALBUMIN;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL FEATURE; DNA SEQUENCE; FAMILIAL AMYLOIDOSIS; FAMILIAL LEPTOMENINGEAL AMYLOIDOSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; PYRAMIDAL SIGN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIDEROSIS; SPINAL CORD; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VARICOSIS;

ADULT; AMYLOIDOSIS, FAMILIAL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MENINGES; POINT MUTATION; PREALBUMIN; RECURRENCE; SIBLINGS; SIDEROSIS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 4644222175     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.029942     Document Type: Article

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