Long term clinical course of canavan disease - A rare Japanese case

No To Hattatsu

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 353-356

  Mizuguchi, Koichi ^a,c   Hoshino, Hideki ^a   Hamaguchi, Hiroshi ^b   Kubota, Masaya ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Metropolitan Higashiyamato Medical Center for Handicapped   (Japan)

^c TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANAVAN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUADRIPLEGIA; RARE DISEASE; SPASTICITY;

ADULT; AMIDOHYDROLASES; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASPARTIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CANAVAN DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MUTATION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350145277     PISSN: 00290831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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