Acquired hepatolenticular degeneration: Is the T1 hyperintensity due to manganese deposition

Neurology India

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 812-813

  Baheti, Neeraj N ^a   Hassan, Haseeb ^a   Rathore, Chaturbhuj ^a   Krishnan, Syam ^a   Kesavadas, Chandrasekharan ^a  

^a SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVODOPA; MANGANESE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; BRADYKINESIA; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CASE REPORT; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; LIVER DISEASE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALLOR; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SPLENOMEGALY; TREMOR; ULTRASOUND; WILSON DISEASE;

GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HEPATOLENTICULAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; MALE; MANGANESE; MIDDLE AGED; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 77249085176     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.59489     Document Type: Letter

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