Musty odour, mental retardation, and spastic paraplegia revealing phenylketonuria in adulthood

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 257, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 302-304

  Camdessanché, Jean Philippe ^a   Jousserand, Guillemette ^a   Antoine, Jean Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PHENYLALANINE; PHENYLALANINE 4 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AMINO ACID URINE LEVEL; ANKLE; BABINSKI REFLEX; CASE REPORT; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CLONUS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE DURATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FALLING; GAIT DISORDER; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LAMINECTOMY; LETTER; LEUKODYSTROPHY; LIMB WEAKNESS; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NEUROPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ODOR; PHENYLKETONURIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; PYRAMIDAL SIGN; QUADRIPLEGIA; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD; TENDON REFLEX; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; MIDDLE AGED; ODORS; PARAPLEGIA; PHENYLKETONURIAS;

EID: 77949266071     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-009-5358-1     Document Type: Letter

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