Very-late-onset Friedreich ataxia with disturbing head tremor and without spinal atrophy - A case report

Movement Disorders

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1058-1059

  Galimanis, Aekaterini ^a   Glutz, Louis ^a   Spiegel, Roland ^b   Burgunder, Jean Marc ^c   Kaelin Lang, Alain ^d  

^a Department of Neurology ^*  (Switzerland)

^b Human Genetics Laboratory   (Switzerland)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; BONE ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSARTHRIA; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; INFRARED OCULOGRAPHY; LETTER; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SPINE ATROPHY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREMOR; AGE; GENETICS; HEAD; HISTOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD;

FRATAXIN; IRON BINDING PROTEIN;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; FEMALE; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; HEAD; HUMANS; IRON-BINDING PROTEINS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINAL CORD; TREMOR;

EID: 49249100791     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21946     Document Type: Letter

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