Copper deficiency as a treatable cause of poor balance

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 340, Issue 7751, 2010, Pages 864-

  Khaleeli, Zhaleh ^a   Healy, Daniel G ^a   Briddon, Anthony ^a   Lunn, Michael P ^a   Reilly, Mary M ^a   Land, John ^a   Giovannoni, Gavin ^b  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERULOPLASMIN; COPPER; COPPER ACETATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BABINSKI REFLEX; BALANCE DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CERULOPLASMIN BLOOD LEVEL; COPPER BLOOD LEVEL; COPPER DEFICIENCY; CRANIAL NERVE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; MICROCYTIC ANEMIA; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUTROPENIA; NORMOCHROMIC NORMOCYTIC ANEMIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VIBRATION SENSE;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; AGED; COPPER; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POSTURAL BALANCE; SENSATION DISORDERS; VESTIBULAR DISEASES;

EID: 77951041257     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c508     Document Type: Article

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