Predominant ataxia, low ceruloplasmin, and absent K-F rings: Hypoceruloplasminemia or wilson's disease

Movement Disorders

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 2260-2261

  Mehta, Shyamal H ^a   Parekh, Samir M ^b   Prakash, Rajan ^a   Morgan, John C ^a   Miyajima, Hiroaki ^c   Sethi, Kapil D ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; CERULOPLASMIN; COPPER; DESFERROXAMINE; FERRITIN; GLIADIN ANTIBODY; HEAVY METAL; IRON; IRON CHELATING AGENT; TRIENTINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACANTHOCYTOSIS; ADULT; ATAXIA; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD LEVEL; BRADYKINESIA; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL DYSTONIA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSARTHRIA; DYSMETRIA; DYSTONIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAIT DISORDER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; HYPOCERULOPLASMINEMIA; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; IRIS; KAYSER FLEISCHER RING; LETTER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL; METABOLIC DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; PUTAMEN; SCREENING; SLIT LAMP; SLURRED SPEECH; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; THUMB; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TREMOR; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; URINE LEVEL; WILSON DISEASE;

ADULT; ATAXIA; BASAL GANGLIA; CERULOPLASMIN; FEMALE; HEPATOLENTICULAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; IRON METABOLISM DISORDERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES;

EID: 78649375660     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23000     Document Type: Letter

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