Brain structural damage in spinocerebellar ataxia type 2. A voxel-based morphometry study

Movement Disorders

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 899-903

  Della Nave, Riccardo ^a   Ginestroni, Andrea ^a   Tessa, Carlo ^a   Cosottini, Mirco ^b   Giannelli, Marco ^c   Salvatore, Elena ^d   Sartucci, Ferdinando ^b   De Michele, Giuseppe ^d   Dotti, Maria Teresa ^e   Piacentini, Silvia ^a   Mascalchi, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c Universitaria Pisana   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ataxia; MR imaging; Spinocerebellar ataxia type 2; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; ATAXIN 2; CYTOSINE; GENE PRODUCT; GUANOSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CEREBRAL PEDUNCLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; MORPHOMETRICS; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIAS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 52449130102     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21982     Document Type: Article

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