Childhood-onset HAM/TSP with progressive cognitive impairment

Neurological Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 209-212

  Zorzi, Giovanna ^a   Mancuso, Roberta ^b   Nardocci, Nardo ^a   Farina, Laura ^a   Guerini, Franca Rosa ^b   Ferrante, Pasquale ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE DON CARLO GNOCCHI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Childhood; Cognitive impairment; HAM TSP; HTLV I

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BABINSKI REFLEX; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CLIMBING; CLONUS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERREFLEXIA; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROLOGY; SHORT STATURE; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SUICIDAL IDEATION; TROPICAL SPASTIC PARAPARESIS; WALKING DIFFICULTY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGE OF ONSET; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA, VIRAL; FATHERS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HLA ANTIGENS; HTLV-I INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MOTHERS; PARAPARESIS, TROPICAL SPASTIC; PEDIGREE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953539180     PISSN: 15901874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-009-0204-x     Document Type: Article

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