Dramatic response of facial stereotype/tic to tetrabenazine in the first reported cases of neuroferritinopathy in the United States

Movement Disorders

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 2470-2472

  Ondo, William G ^a   Adam, Octavian R ^b   Jankovic, Joseph ^a   Chinnery, Patrick F ^c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCITALOPRAM; FERRITIN; TETRABENAZINE;

ADULT; AGED; BALANCE DISORDER; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DYSARTHRIA; DYSKINESIA; DYSPHAGIA; EVENING DOSAGE; FACE ASYMMETRY; HUMAN; IRON BINDING CAPACITY; LETTER; MALE; MORNING DOSAGE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROFERRITINOPATHY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIC; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNITED STATES;

ADRENERGIC UPTAKE INHIBITORS; FACE; FERRITINS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; NEUROAXONAL DYSTROPHIES; TETRABENAZINE; TICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77958538143     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23299     Document Type: Letter

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