FTLD-TDP with motor neuron disease, visuospatial impairment and a progressive supranuclear palsy-like syndrome: Broadening the clinical phenotype of TDP-43 proteinopathies. A report of three cases

BMC Neurology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Rusina, Robert ^a   Kovacs, Gabor G ^b   Fiala, Jindřich ^a   Hort, Jakub ^c,d   Ridzoň, Petr ^a   Holmerová, Iva ^e   Ströbel, Thomas ^b   Matěj, Radoslav ^e,f  

^a Thomayer Teaching Hospital and Institute for Postgraduate Education in Medicine   (Czech Republic)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MOTOL   (Czech Republic)

^d International Clinical Research Center   (Czech Republic)

^e CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^f FAKULTNÍ THOMAYEROVA NEMOCNICE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACLOFEN; CITALOPRAM; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ESCITALOPRAM; LEVODOPA; MEMANTINE; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1; PRAMIPEXOLE; PROGRANULIN; PROTEIN P62; TAR DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVE RESPONSE DNA BINDING PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTEIN TDP-43;

AGED; AKINESIA; APATHY; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; BLEPHAROSPASM; BRAIN; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN STEM ATROPHY; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; CELL INCLUSION; CELL LOSS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GAZE PARALYSIS; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLIOSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERREFLEXIA; HYPOGLOSSAL NUCLEUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFERIOR OLIVE; LEARNING DISORDER; MALNUTRITION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MUTISM; NEURITE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSONISM; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PHENOTYPE; POLYDIPSIA; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; PTOSIS; REFLEX; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SEPTIC SHOCK; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TDP 43 PROTEINOPATHY; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUOSPATIAL IMPAIRMENT; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WHEELCHAIR; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

AGED; BRAIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY, PROGRESSIVE; TDP-43 PROTEINOPATHIES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79955728557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-11-50     Document Type: Article

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