Highly selective leptomeningeal amyloidosis with transthyretin variant ALA25THR

Neurology

Volumn 72, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 1358-1360

  Hagiwara, K ^a   Ochi, H ^a   Suzuki, S ^a   Shimizu, Y ^b   Tokuda, T ^c   Murai, H ^a   Shigeto, H ^a   Ohyagi, Y ^a   Iwata, M ^b   Iwaki, T ^a   Kira, J I ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMYLOID; PREALBUMIN; THREONINE;

ADULT; AMYLOIDOSIS; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITARY TRANSTHYRETIN AMYLOIDOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEPTOMENINGEAL AMYLOIDOSIS; MALE; NEURORADIOLOGY; POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; SEIZURE; FAMILIAL AMYLOIDOSIS; GENETICS; MENINX; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; SPINAL CORD;

AMYLOID; AMYLOIDOSIS; AMYLOIDOSIS, FAMILIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGES; MIDDLE AGED; PREALBUMIN; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 65349120596     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181a0fe74     Document Type: Article

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