Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 mimicking Stiff Person syndrome

Movement Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 2158-2160

  Singhal, Sumeet ^a   Gontu, Vamsi ^a   Choudhary, Prajendra ^a   Auer, Dorothee ^a   Bajaj, Nin ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATAXIN 1; BACLOFEN; CLONAZEPAM; TIZANIDINE;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG RESPONSE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION TYPE 1; STIFF MAN SYNDROME; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

CEREBELLUM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIAS; STIFF-PERSON SYNDROME;

EID: 70450164044     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.22521     Document Type: Letter

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