A case of sporadic adult Alexander disease presenting with acute onset, remission and relapse

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1292-1293

  Ayaki, Takashi ^a   Shinohara, Miho ^a   Tatsumi, Shinsui ^a   Namekawa, Michito ^b   Yamamoto, Toru ^a  

^a SAISEIKAI NAKATSU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CA 19-9 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ALEXANDER DISEASE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; GENE MUTATION; HEMIPARESIS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LETTER; LIMB WEAKNESS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALEXANDER DISEASE; BRAIN; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; RECURRENCE; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 78649618466     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2009.178079     Document Type: Letter

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